§ Mr. COMPTONasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what is the estimated annual cost of allowing established civil servants in the clerical, S, writing assistant, and typing classes to count for superannuation purposes unestablished service rendered prior to establishment?
§ Mr. W. S. MORRISONSome of these officers are already allowed to reckon part of their unestablished service for pension. I assume that the hon. Member desires to know what would be the additional cost of reckoning for all such officers the whole of their unestablished service. It is estimated that, even assuming that such a concession could be confined to the classes in question, the aggregate addition to the annual pensions of these officers would be in the neighbourhood of £500,000 per annum. There would also be a total increased expenditure of about £1,250,000 in respect of lump sums payable on retirement.
§ Mr. COMPTONasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what would be the annual cost to the Exchequer if post-war entrants to the clerical and S classes of the Civil Service who have been debarred from establishment on age 1976W grounds, were allowed to count unestablished service prior to establishment for purposes of determining eligibility for pension, but not for purposes of determining the amount of pension?
§ Mr. W. S. MORRISONThe implication of the question appears to be that each of the individuals in question should now be established, and on retirement be awarded a pension calculated upon the number of years service, however few, rendered after the date of the Civil Service Certificate, provided that the total service amounts to 10 years. This arrangement is contrary to the provisions of the Superannuation Acts which require at least 10 years reckonable service as a condition of pension, and would require legislation. Sufficient data are not available for a reliable estimate of the cost of such a change.