§ Mr. Hoosonasked the Minister for the Civil Service whether assistant chief constables in the Ministry of Defence Police receive lower salaries than their chief superintendents or superintendents and receive commensurately small pensions; and what is the reason for any disparities.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisSince 1st September 1975 the salary scale of the assistant chief constables in the Ministry of Defence Police has been lower than that 399W of the chief superintendents, and in some instances lower than some parts of the superintendents' scale. Pensions are bound to be affected, because under the rules of the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme they are based on pay in the best of the last three years of service.
This situation arose because it was not possible under the Government's pay policy to implement the consequential adjustment to the pay of assistant chief constables which would normally have followed the settlement for the lower ranks. The Government have declared their intention to seek to ease this anomaly from the earliest moment that pay policy permits. For the details I would refer the hon. and learned Member to my reply to the Adjournment debate on 19th April 1977—[Vol. 930, cols. 161–170].