§ Mr. HarrisTo ask the Lord President of the Council when he received the Top Salaries Review Body report on the office costs allowance; and what implications it has for the uprating of the office costs allowance on 1 April.
§ Mr. MacGregorI have recently received the TSRB's report on the office costs allowance. It makes a number of important recommendations which it should be for the new Parliament to consider. Accordingly copies will be placed in the Vote Office and Library early in the new Parliament.
The House will wish to know that the report recommends no immediate change in the uprating mechanism. It will be for the new House to decide what recommendations in the report it wishes to implement and in what time scale. Meanwhile, under the resolution of this House of 21 July 1987 the OCA will, as in recent years, be uprated from 1 April 1992 in line with the increase in the maximum point on the scale for civil service senior personal secretaries in receipt of inner London weighting. The uprating will be implemented as soon as a settlement is reached covering senior personal secretaries in the civil service.