HC Deb 30 November 1962 vol 668 cc97-8W
Mr. Mason

asked the Civil Lord of the Admiralty (1) 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 ten 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;

(2) 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, stating the firms which they joined within two years of leaving the Civil Service, in cases requiring the approval of his Department.

Mr. C. Ian Orr-Ewing

The following table lists the number of officers by grades for whom applications to take up posts with industrial firms have been approved in each of the last 10 years:

Year Grade of Officer
1952 1 Director of Naval Construction.
1954 1 Civil Engineer-in-Chief.
1955 1 Deputy Director of Stores.
1957 1 Senior Principal Scientific Officer.
1958 1 Inspecting Officer of Naval Ordnance.
1 Director of Naval Construction.
1959 1 Warship Electrical Superintendent.
1960 1 Director of Electrical Engineering.
1961 1 Director of Naval Construction.
1 Director of Dockyards.
1962 1 Assistant Director of Naval Construction.
1 Assistant Director of Dockyards.

The firms and undertaking concerned in these applications were as follows:

  • Denny Brothers Limited.
  • Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company.
  • Gibson and Company (Shipbrokers).
  • R. & H. Green and Silley Weir Limited.
  • Hall-Thermotank Limited.
  • Livesey and Henderson Limited.
  • Rye-Arc Limited.
  • Sankey and Company.
  • J. Thorneycroft and Company.
  • Underseas (Bermuda) Limited.
  • J. S. White and Company.
  • Yarrows (Shipbuilders) Limited.

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