§ Mr. Thorntonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the number of established civil servants, and what are the Departments or offices employing them, and what are the posts and grades they occupy, who, because of overlapping scales and the Starting Pay on Promotion Agreement, set out in Establishments Circular No. 6/49, receive, or have received, since 1st September, 1949, less pay at London, Intermediate or Provincial scales, whichever applies, than those junior to them promoted to the same grade after 1st September, 1949.
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterThis information is not available and cannot be collected without an undue expenditure of time and labour. The hon. Member will see from paragraph 17 of the Circular to which he refers, and of which I am sending him a copy, that differences of this kind were foreseen and accepted by both parties to the Agreement.