HC Deb 20 December 1962 vol 669 cc237-41W
Mr. Mason

asked the Minister of Aviation how many civil servants in his Department over the past 10 years, giving the ranks, 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 firm involved in each case.

TABLE 1
Grade of Officer Business or other body Subsection
1953
Permanent Secretary Aberdare Cables Ltd. (a)
W. J. Fraser & Co. (a)
Silent Bloc Ltd. (a)
Assistant Secretary Jack Olding (a)
Principal Executive Officer Armstrong Siddeley Motors Ltd. (a)
Brockworth Engineering Ltd. (a)
Principal Executive Officer Maudslay Motor Co. (a)
Principal Executive Officer Briggs Motor Bodies Ltd. (a)
Hobourn Aero Components Ltd. (a)
1954
Senior Chief Executive Officer Nathan Agran Ltd. (a)
Chief Scientific Officer Vickers Armstrongs Ltd. (a)
Deputy Chief Scientific Officer Siemens Bros. & Co. Ltd. (a)
Senior Principal Scientific Officer Smiths Aircraft Instruments Ltd. (a)
Director (Engineer) Aldis Bros. Ltd. (a)
Glass Developments Ltd. (a)
1955
Assistant Secretary B. Elliott & Co. Ltd. (a)
Senior Chief Executive Officer British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd. (a)
Chief Scientific Officer Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd. (a)
Deputy Chief Scientific Officer Tube Investment Research Laboratories (a)
Senior Principal Scientific Officer Ferranti Ltd. (a)
Senior Scientific Officer Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. (a)
Senior Experimental Officer Marshalls Flying School Ltd. (a)
Senior Experimental Officer Epsylon R. & D. Co. (a)
Senior Experimental Officer Reid & Sigrist Ltd (a)
Experimental Officer C. W. Juby Ltd (a)
Assistant Experimental Officer Rolls Royce Ltd. (a)
Assistant Experimental Officer Boulton Paul Aircraft Ltd. (a)
Assistant Director (Engineer) S. G. Brown Ltd (a)
Engineer II Chatwood Safe & Engineering Co. Ltd. (a)
Engineer III Bristol Aeroplane Co. Ltd. (a)
Engineer Technical Grade I Handley Page Ltd. (a)
1956
Chief Scientific Officer Mullard Ltd (a)
Deputy Chief Scientific Officer Microcell Ltd (a)
Senior Principal Scientific Officer Air Trainers Ltd (a)
Senior Principal Scientific Officer Albright & Wilson Ltd (a)

Mr. Amery

Table 1 below shows, by grades, 99 officers for whom applications have been approved over the last 10 years within the ruling of paragraph 5 of Command Paper No. 5517. It also indicates the subsection of that paragraph involved and gives the names of the firms concerned at the time of application. The list includes 22 officers in former Ministry of Supply posts no longer part of the Ministry of Aviation. There is no record of whether the appointments for which approval has been given were actually made.

In addition to the 99 officers listed in Table 1, approval was given to applications by 15 other officers. These applications did not fall within paragraph 5 of the Command Paper, but were dealt with, under Departmental regulations, as a matter of general propriety. A list is given in Table 2, of all the applications considered, 25 were in respect of ranks more junior than those covered by the hon. Member's previous Questions.

Grade of Officer Business or other body Subsection
Senior Principal Scientific Officer Bristol Aircraft Ltd. (a)
Principal Scientific Officer British Communications Corporation Ltd. (a)
Principal Scientific Officer S. G. Brown Ltd. (a)
Senior Scientific Officer A. V. Roe & Co. Ltd. (a)
Director (Engineer) Garringtons Ltd. (a)
B. R. D. Ltd. (a)
Assistant Director (Engineer) Saben Hart & Partners Ltd. (a)
Engineer I Bristol Aeroplane Co. Ltd. (a)
Engineer I Serck Radiators Ltd. (a)
Engineer II Scottish Aviation Co. Ltd. (a)
Engineer II Ruston & Hornsby Ltd. (a)
Engineer II Saben Hart & Partners Ltd. (a)
Engineer II I.C.I. Ltd. (a)
Chemist II I.C.I. Ltd. (a)
Engineer III Marconi W. T. Co. Ltd. (a)
Engineer III De Havilland Ltd. (a)
Rolls Royce Ltd. (a)
Engineer Technical Grade I Louis Newmark Ltd. (a)
1957
Higher Executive Officer Microcell Ltd. (a)
Senior Principal Scientific Officer Pulsometer Group Ltd. (a)
Scientific Officer A. V. Roe & Co. Ltd (a)
Experimental Officer The Wilkinson Sword Co. Ltd. (a)
Experimental Officer Canadair Ltd., Montreal (a)
Assistant Experimental Officer A. V. Roe & Co. Ltd. (a)
Director General (Engineer) Projectile & Engineering Co. Ltd. (a)
J. E. Shay Ltd.
Director (Engineer) British Motor Corporation (a)
Director (Engineer) Pena Copper Mines Group (a)
Director (Engineer) Dowty Group (a)
Assistant Director (Engineer) Blackburn & General Aircraft Co. Ltd. (a)
Engineer II British Communications Corporation (a)
Engineer II K. & L. Steel Founders & Engineers Ltd. (a)
Engineer III Laurence Scott Electromotors Ltd. (a)
Engineer III Shell Chemical Co. Ltd. (a)
1958
Senior Executive Officer E. M. I. Electronics Ltd. (a)
Higher Executive Officer F. Miller & Co. (London) Ltd. (a)
Higher Executive Officer Isleworth Garage (a)
Executive Officer Sperry Gyroscope Co. Ltd. (a)
Chief Executive Officer Massey Harris Ferguson Ltd. (a)
Principal Scientific Officer Guest Keen & Nettlefold Ltd. (a)
Principal Scientific Officer Hunting Engineering Ltd. (a)
Experimental Officer Fairey Air Surveys Ltd. (a)
Assistant Director (Engineer) Coventry Gauge & Tool Co. (a)
Engineer II Ferranti Ltd. (a)
1959
Deputy Secretary Projectile & Engineering Co. Ltd. (a)
Chief Scientist British Oxygen Ltd. (a)
Chief Scientific Officer Urquhart's (1926) Ltd. (a)
Senior Scientific Officer Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd. (a)
Assistant Director (Engineer) F. Taylor & Sons (Manchester) Ltd. (a)
Assistant Director (Engineer) Newman Industries Ltd. (a)
Engineer II Siemens Edison Swan Ltd. (a)
1960
Airport Commandant British Overseas Airways Corporation (last Clause)
Controller British Transport Commission (last Clause)
Chief Scientific Officer Westland Aircraft Ltd. (a)
Deputy Chief Scientific Officer Painton & Co. Ltd. (a)
Mullard Equipment Ltd. (a)
Principal Scientific Officer A. Macklow-Smith Ltd. (a)
Experimental Officer Smiths Aircraft Instruments Ltd. (a)
Experimental Officer Pye Telecommunications Ltd. (a)
Assistant Experimental Officer Mullard Equipment Ltd. (a)
Assistant Experimental Officer Associated Transistors Ltd. (a)
Director General (Engineer) Appleby & Ireland Ltd. (a)
Engineer II R. F. D. Co. Ltd. (a)

Grade of Officer Business or other body Subsection
1961
Permanent Secretary Reynolds T. I. Aluminium Ltd. (a)
Venesta Foils Ltd. (a)
Under Secretary Iron & Steel Board (last Clause)
Deputy Chief Scientific Officer S.F.I.M. (G.B.) Ltd. (a)
Principal Scientific Officer J. Langham Thompson Ltd. (a)
Assistant Director (Engineer) Dowty Group (a)
1962
Deputy Chief Scientific Officer International Computers & Tabulators Ltd. (a)
Deputy Chief Scientific Officer Standard Telecommunications Laboratories (a)
Senior Principal Scientific Officer Manchester Corporation (last Clause)
Senior Experimental Officer Collins Radio Co. of England Ltd. (a)
Simons Equipment Ltd. (a)
Engineer Technical Grade II Elliott Bros. (London) Ltd. (a)

TABLE 2
Grade of Officer Business
1953
Assistant Director (Engineer) Private Consultant (to industry generally).
1954
Chief Scientific Officer General Precision Corporation, New York.
1955
Principal Executive Officer Glass Yarns & Deeside Fabrics Ltd.
Chief Scientific Officer Aero Jet General Corporation of America.
General Tire & Rubber Co.
Engineer Technical Grade I Tool Design (London) Ltd.
1956
Permanent Secretary British & French Bank.
Hecht Levis & Kahn.
S. G. Warburg & Co., Ltd.
Director (Engineer) Hispano-Suiza Group.
Engineer I Taycorn Engineering Co. Ltd.
1957
1958
1959
Chief Executive Officer Cogswell & Harrison Ltd.
Assistant Patents Officer Mathison & Macara.
Chief Scientific Officer Petters Ltd.
Senior Scientific Officer Shell International Petroleum Co. Ltd.
Chemist II Du Pont Ltd.
1960
1961
1962
Chief Scientific Officer Private Consultant (to the Electronics Industry generally).
Senior Principal Scientific Officer Constable Hart & Co., Ltd.