Lieut.-Colonel Sir F. HALLasked the Under-Secretary of State to the Air Ministry what amount of technical pay, if any, it has been decided to award to technical officers in Class A of the Royal Air Force; whether the same is to be retrospective from the 1st September, 1918,and will include technical officers demobilised before the decision has been arrived at; and, if so, whether an officer who would thus be entitled to additional pay can claim the same together with gratuity based on the larger amount of pay?
§ Major-General SEELYAs regards the future, the pay of officers of all branches, flying, technical and administrative, will as I have already indicated, be uniform. As regards the past, the amount of Technical pay which has been awarded to officers graded Category "A" of the Technical Branch has been according to rank, viz.:—
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2nd Lieutenant … … 2s. a day. Lieutenant … … 3s. a day. Captain … … 4s. a day. Major … … 6s. 6d. a day. The Air Force Agents have been instructed to issue retrospectively from 1st April, 1918, or from the date of transfer or appointment to the Technical Branch, if more recent, to those officers who have now been so graded. This will include officers who have been demobilised. Gratuity will not be affected as it is not calculated upon technical pay.