§ 50. Mr. A. Lewisasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the appropriate grade in the Civil Service for a civil servant in receipt of £1,750 per annum; what pension rate and other emoluments are included in this grading; and what is his estimate of the cost to the Treasury of attaching Members of Parliament to this grade for salary and pension purposes.
§ Sir E. BoyleMany Civil Service grades may earn £1,750 per annum; examples are Principals in the Administrative Class and Senior Executive Officers in the Executive Class. The immediate cost of attaching Members of Parliament for salary purposes to a grade with the same salary would be nil, while the future cost would be conjectural. The pension payable to a civil servant who retired on a salary of £1,750 could be anything from nil to £980 according to the number of years for which he had served; the qualifying period for a Civil Service pension is ten years. Civil Service pensions would be inappropriate to the circumstances of hon. Members; and I do not think that the difficult actuarial calculation needed to estimate the cost of giving such pensions to Members would be justified.