§ 12. Mr. Saltasked the Minister of Fuel and Power what salaries it is proposed to pay to the group production directors under the new scheme for grouping collieries; what salaries are permissible under existing Civil Service scales; whether it will be permissible for these directors to continue to receive payment from their private employers to supplement their Civil Service payment; and what will be the relationship between the payment of these production directors and the colliery inspectors.
§ The Minister of Fuel and Power (Major Lloyd George)It is intended that group production directors to be appointed should receive the equivalent of their present remuneration from the Coal Charges Account so that they will be neither better off nor worse off than they were when directly employed by the industry: the second part of the Question does not, therefore, arise. These officers will not receive any payment in cash from their former industrial employers so long as they are employed in the service of this Ministry, but may continue to receive certain perquisites, particularly housing accommodation, which were attached to their previous employment. There is no relationship between the payment to the proposed group production directors and to the Mines Inspectorate—the former will be temporary non-pensionable State servants whereas the Mines Inspectors are salaried civil servants and pensionable subject to the usual conditions.