§ Major GLYNasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what are the numbers of temporary civil servants and of established civil servants, and give a list of the grades and rates of pay attaching thereto in the several Departments in which they serve; whether the conditions of pension are the same for each grade and Department but applicable only to established civil servants; and whether in each case involve, as regards counting for pension, a reduction of years of actual service?
§ Mr. RONALD McNEILLIt is estimated that there are, approximately, 220,000 established civil servants, of whom 30,000 are in industrial grades; that the number of unestablished, non-industrial civil servants is, approximately, 115,000, of whom about 52,000 are part timers, and that the number of unestablished industrial civil servants is, approximately, 94,000. It would not be possible to give a list of grades and rates of pay attaching thereto within the limits of the reply to a Parliamentary question. The hon. Member will find full details in the Estimates for the current financial year. The award of superannuation in the case of all established civil servants is governed by the provisions of the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1919. Temporary service is not reckonable for pension under those Acts except in special circumstances as mentioned in Section 3 of the Superannuation Act, 1887.