§ Lieut.-Colonel RUGGLES-BRISEasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the categories and grades of all civil servants to whose salaries the proposed reduction 424W in the cost-of-living bonus will apply and, similarly, of those to whom it will not apply?
§ Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCEBonus is not now payable to civil servants in receipt of a salary of £22,000 a year or over. Otherwise the arrangement under which Civil Service rates of remuneration include a bonus element which is subject twice a year to revision upwards or downwards in relation to the average cost-of living figure for the preceding six months is of general application to the non-industrial classes and grades of the Civil Service.