HC Deb 12 April 1949 vol 463 c2636
52. Mr. David Eccles

asked the Minister of Health whether in view of the fact that men and women employed in the National Health Service in the administrative, professional and technical grades receive equal pay, he will apply the same principle to other employees of his Department in similar grades.

The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Blenkinsop)

I would refer the hon. Member to the reply about equal pay for men and women civil servants given by my right hon. Friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 24th February, 1949, to the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mrs. Castle).

Mr. Eccles

Surely, a sense of injustice is bound to pervade the hon. Gentleman's Department if one section of his employees is paid on one principle and the other section is paid on another principle?

Mr. Blenkinsop

There is no change in the position, because those who are actually members of the Health Service were paid on that basis in the past.