§ 34. Sir E. Keelingasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will compare the present rates of pension or retired pay exceeding £400 per annum of different grades of servants of the Crown, both military and civil, who retired before 1st September, 1950, with the rates the same persons received in 1919 and 1935, showing the percentage of change.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerDetails of rates for several ranks of State servants, both military and civil, are as follows:
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RETIRED PAY OF OFFICERS OF THE ARMED FORCES (Army ranks shown for convenience. Before 1945 there were small differences between the retired pay rates of the three Armed Services) Retired pay, 1919 Retired pay, 1935 Present Retired Pay Rank Rates Rates Percentage change compared with 1919 Amount Percentage change compared with 1919 Percentage change compared with 1935 £ £ per cent. £ per cent. per cent. Major 450 407 -9.5 476 +5.8 +17 Lieutenant-Colonel 600 543 -9.5 583 -2.8 + 7.4 Colonel 800 724 -9.5 760 -5 + 5 Brigadier (see Note (2)) 800 724 -9.5 760 -5 + 5 Major-General 1,000 905 -9.5 905 - 9.5 — Lieutenant-General 1,200 1,086 -9.5 1,086 -9.5 — General 1,400 1,267 -9.5 1,267 -9.5 —
CIVIL SERVICE PENSIONS Grade Pension, 1935 Present Pension Pension, 1922 Amount Percentage change compared with 1922 Amount Percentage change copared with 1922 Percentage change compared with 1935 £ £ per cent. £ per cent. per cent. Higher Executive Officer 379 318 -16.1 404 +6.6 +27 Senior Executive Officer 490 424 -13.5 481 -1.8 +13.4 Principal 601 529 -12 569 -5.3 + 7.6 Assistant Secretary 754 680 - 9.8 714 -5.3 + 5 Principal Assistant Secretary 890 823 - 7.5 823 - 7.5 — Deputy Secretary 1,100 1,100 — 1,100 — — Permanent Secretary 1,500 1,500 — 1,500 — — NOTES:—
(1) The retired pay rates of officers of the Armed Forces are primarily related to rank. Officers who retired between 1919 and 1935 drew retired pay at 1919 rates subject to variation limited to 20 per cent, in respect of the cost of living. Those rates were stabilised in 1935.
(2) Before 1945 there was no special retired pay rate for a brigadier.
(3) Civil Service pensions, unlike military pensions, are not related to rank, but vary according to salary on retirement and length of service. The table in this case starts at 1922, when a review of these pensions took place, corresponding to the 1919 review of military pensions. At that time the pensions (other than those of the two highest grades) contained a bonus element which was subject to variation in respect of the cost of living, within a maximum of the amount payable immediately after retirement. This element was stabilised in 1935. The table shows the pensions payable on retirement after 40 years' service, from the maximum of the salary scales of representative grades in 1922.
(4) The present amounts, in both parts of the table, include the maximum increases admissible under the Pensions (Increase) Acts of 1944, 1947 and 1952, and the corresponding Prerogative Instruments.