§ Mr. Roy Masonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many civil servants in his Department over the past 10 years, went within two years of retirement or resignation to other jobs and sought permission within the ruling of paragraph 5 of Command Paper No. 5517, specifying which subsection of that paragraph was involved and the firms involved in each case.
§ Mr. BarberMy reply to the hon. Gentleman on 7th December, 1962, contained a list both of the Treasury officers who had been given approval to take up appointments with industrial firms during the past 10 years and of the firms and undertakings concerned.
So far as I have been able to ascertain 6 of the cases fell under subsection (a) of paragraph 5 of Command Paper 5517: that is, the firms concerned or 217W some of their subsidiaries were in contractual relationship with the Government (though not with the Treasury). The firms were Associated Electrical Industries, Babcock and Wilcox Ltd., Tube Investments Ltd., Unilever Ltd., and Vickers Armstrong Ltd. Three cases fell under subsection (e), the firms concerned being Richard Thomas and Baldwin Ltd. and the Royal Dutch Shell Co. Ltd. The other cases do not appear to have fallen under any specific subsection of paragraph 5 of the Command Paper: approval was sought as a matter of general propriety, and was granted.