HC Deb 07 December 1962 vol 668 cc236-7W
Mr. Mason

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a list of the administrative, executive and technical officers of his Department with salaries of more than £2,000 per annum who on resigning or retiring over the past 10 years have taken up posts with industrial firms, signifying which of these have done so within two years of leaving the Civil Service in cases requiring the approval of his Department, and also naming the firms they joined.

Mr. Barber

During the past 10 years approval to take up appointments with industrial firms has been given to Treasury officers, by grades, as follows—one Permanent Secretary, one Joint Permanent Secretary, three Second Secretaries, one Economic Adviser, one Head of the Information Division, two Assistant Secretaries and four Principals.

The firms and undertakings concerned were as follows:

  • Associated Electrical Industries.
  • Babcock & Wilcox Ltd.
  • Brazilian Traction, Light & Power Co. Ltd.
  • Building Societies Association.
  • Equity & Law Life Assurance Society.
  • Greenfriar Investment Co. Ltd.
  • Harrison & Crossfield Ltd.
  • Hudson's Bay Co.
  • Industrial & Commercial Finance Corporation.
  • London Chamber of Commerce.
  • Lowland Investment Co. Ltd.
  • Organisation & Methods Training Council.
  • Penguin Books Ltd.
  • Richard Thomas & Baldwin Ltd.
  • Royal Dutch Shell Co. Ltd.
  • Standard Bank of South Africa.
  • Tube Investments Ltd.
  • Unilever Ltd.
  • Union Corporation Ltd.
  • Vickers Armstrong Ltd.
  • Warburg Investment Co.
  • Witan Investment Co. Ltd.

There is no record whether all the appointments for which approval was given were actually made, and there is no requirement foe officers to obtain approval to take up posts when they have been retired from the public service for more than two years.

Mr. Mason

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer which administrative, executive and technical officers of his Department with salaries of £1,500£2,000 per annum have taken up posts with industrial firms within two years of leaving the Civil Service over the past 10 years, in cases requiring the approval of his Department; and what were the firms they joined.

Mr. Barber

There is no record of any such case in the Treasury within the past 10 years.