§ Mr. HAYESasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that writing assistants and members of the typist and shorthand-typist grades selected for promotion to the clerical class before reaching the maximum of their old class on grounds of special merit suffer some slight immediate loss on promotion owing to the increments of junior women clerical officers being smaller than those of the basic clerical grades concerned; whether there are any other grades to which promotion means an immediate financial loss, and, if so, which; and in
428Wthe Departments in which the cadet administrative class is employed?
Mr. SAMUELA table is appended showing the position as at 1st July last. I regret that the further information desired by the hon. Member is not available.
the case of what other grades does promotion involve no immediate increase in pay?
Mr. SAMUELI am aware that officers promoted to pasts carrying scales of salary which overlap the scales of their former posts may, in certain circumstances, incur a slight immediate loss owing to a change in the rate of their annual increment. This is offset, however, by advancement on the salary scales of their new posts, and in many instances by improved conditions of service. With regard to the last part of the question, the general rule is that officers promoted to posts carrying scales of salary which 429W overlap the scales of their former posts enter the higher scales either at the minimum, or at their existing rate of salary, whichever is the greater. In these cases, and also in cases where the minimum of the scale of the higher post is identical with the maximum of the scale of the lower post, a promoted officer if on the maximum of his old scale at the date of his promotion would not normally receive any immediate increase unless he had been for three years or more at that maximum.