§ Sir John Barlowasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state the present number of non-industrial civil servants established and temporary in post; if he will give, separately, the cost of their pay increases with effect from 1st April, 1963, 1st January, 1964, and 1st January, 1965, as part of the long-term pay agreement; what will be the cost of the increases paid or to be paid as a result of the findings of the Civil Service Pay Research Unit last year; and what will be the estimated cost of the pay increase to be effective from 1st January, 1966.
§ Mr. MacDermotExcluding the manipulative and engineering grades of the Post Office there are approximately 520,000 non-industrial civil servants. The cost of successive central pay increases for these is estimated to be:
About 350,000 staff have received further increases effective from 1st January, 1964, as a result of pay research surveys at a cost of approximately £17 million.
£m. 3 per cent.—1st April, 1963 … 13 3 per cent.—1st January, 1964 … 13½ 3½ per cent.—1st January, 1965 … 17 3½ per cent.—1st January, 1966 … 17½