§ 37. Mr. Aitkenasked the Minister for the Civil Service if he has any plans to review the policy of providing retired civil servants with inflation-proof pensions.
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§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisI refer the hon. Member to the answer which I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Fife, Central (Mr. Hamilton) on 24th November.—[Vol. 901, c. 476–8.]
§ Mr. Evelyn Kingasked the Minister for the Civil Service what is the maximum increase in pension in the case of retired civil servants made or about to be made to those who were earning £5,000 a year or more; and in how many cases this increase exceeded the £6 limit for those in work.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisRecords of the some 250,000 former retired civil servants, their widows, and other dependants are not kept in a form which allows the salary on which current benefits are based to be readily extracted. The maximum increase in pension made in any one year to cover a 12-month period will be the 26.1 per cent., which is payable with effect from 1st December this year to public service pensioners who retired before 1st July 1974. Those in this category who at the time of their retirement had been in receipt of a pensionable salary of £5,000 or more and had a minimum of 20 years' service will receive an increase in excess of £6 a week.