§ 35. Mr. Beswickasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the total cost of all established and non-established Civil Service salaries and pensions, excluding those paid to individuals in revenue-earning and self-balancing Departments like the Post Office; and if he will state this cost as a proportion of total public expenditure and total national income, respectively.
Mr. AmoryExcluding the Post Office, and 10 small self-balancing Departments, the cost in 1956–57 of salaries paid to non-industrial civil servants was £289 million. It is not possible to separate the cost of pensions paid to former industrial civil servants from those paid to former non-industrial civil servants, but together they amount to £24 million. The40W total of £313 million represents 7.7 per cent. of total Government expenditure and approximately 1.9 per cent. of total national income in that year.