§ Mr. Strangasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will state for each 12-month period beginning 2 October 1979, the percentage rise in university academics' pay and the comparable rise in the retail prices index.
§ Mr. WaldenThe information requested is as follows:
Period* University non-clinical academics Pay rise per cent. Retail Prices Index (per cent, increase) 2 October 1979 to 1 October 1980 †25.2 15.4 2 October 1980 to 1 October 1981 ‡3.2 11.7 2 October 1981 to 1 October 1982 5.0 6.8 2 October 1982 to 1 October 1983 ║4.7 5.0 2 October 1983 to 1 October 1984 ¶4.8 5.0 2 October 1984 to 1 October 1985 •5.25 5.4 Notes
* Salary incremental date was 1 October up to 1980, 1 March in 1981, and 1 April thereafter.
†Consists of 17 per cent. phased Clegg-equivalent award paid on I April and 1 October 1980, plus 8.2 per cent. paid on 1 October 1980 which was the first part of a two-part settlement extending over 18 months.
‡Second part to two-part settlement paid on 1 March 1981 consisting of 3 per cent. on all scale points plus £100 on the maximum of the lecturer scale and on the corresponding point of the senior lecturer scale.
║4.6 per cent. on all scale points plus increase of 0.1 per cent. arising from elimination of bottom point of lecturers scale, £75 to be added to first seven points of lecturers scale, and the 26 age point on the lecturers scale to be replaced by a 27 age point one point up the scale.
¶ 4.6 per cent. on all scale points plus £150 to the maximum of the
330Wlecturer scale.
• 5.2 per cent. on all scale points plus £110 on first 4 points of the lecturers scale.