Miss Wardasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, in view of the recent decision to differentiate in the payment of 353W war bonuses to the Civil Service as between men and women, how much money will be saved by the payment of a lower scale to women?
§ Captain CrookshankI presume that what my hon. Friend desires to know is what would be the additional cost of granting to women civil servants war bonus at the same rates as to men, and subject to the same conditions. This cannot be precisely calculated, but it is estimated that, on the basis of the number of women at present employed, the figure would be of the order of £1,000,000 a year.