HC Deb 17 July 1957 vol 573 cc1121-2
18. Miss Vickers

asked the Secretary of State for War why the employees at the Command Ordnance Depot, Coypool, will not benefit from the improved scales of pay until 1962.

Mr. J. Amery

I believe my hon. Friend is referring to possible changes in the system of what is known as provincial differentiation. These changes are being considered by the National Whitley Council, because they would apply to all non-industrial civil servants, not only those at Coypool.

Miss Vickers

Will my hon. Friend look at this again? Does he realise that this depot is only forty yards outside Plymouth and that, if it were in Plymouth, the employees would get the extra pay. Is he aware that, originally, the depot at which they worked, at Gun Wharf, was bombed, and they went outside only for this reason, and is not the present situation very unfair?

Mr. Amery

As I said, this matter extends considerably beyond the responsibility of the War Office.

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