§ Sir L. Lyleasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the present position with regard to claims for increased pay in the Civil Service; and to what extent the ban on consideration of such claims during the war is still in operation.
§ Sir J. AndersonThere has never been an absolute ban on the consideration of claims for increased pay in the Civil Service in war-time. I think what my hon. Friend has in mind is that it has been, and still is, practice in the Civil Service to refuse consideration to any claim for an improvement in the permanent scale of pay for a particular grade which is based on a purely war-time increase in the quality of the work of the grade. Where, however, it can be shown that a scale of pay was inadequate before the war, or that there has been a marked increase in the quality of the work in war-time, which will still persist after the war for an indefinite period of time, the question of granting improved scales of pay may properly be considered.