§ Mr. Masonasked the Minister of Aviation (1) if he will publish a list of the administrative, executve and technical officers of his Department with salaries of more than £2,000 per annum who on resigning or retiring over the past ten years have taken up posts with industrial firms, signifying which of these have done so within two years of leaving the Civil Service, in cases requiring the approval of his Department;
(2) if he will publish a list of the administrative, executive and technical officers of his Department with salaries of more than £2,000 per anum who on resigning or retiring over the past 10 years have taken up posts with industrial firms, stating the firms which they joined within two years of leaving the Civil Service, in cases requiring the approval of his Department.
§ Mr. J. AmeryThe following table shows the numbers of officers by grades for whom applications to take up posts with industrial firms have been approved over the last ten years.
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Year Grade of Officer 1953 1 Permanent Secretary. 1 Assistant Secretary. 3 Principal Executive Officers. 1954 1 Senior Chief Executive Officer. 1 Deputy Chief Scientific Officer. 1 Chief Scientific Officer. 1 Director (Engineer). 1955 1 Assistant Secretary. 1 Principal Executive Officer. 1 Senior Chief Executive Officer. 2 Chief Scientific Officers. 1 Deputy Chief Scientific Officer. 1 Senior Principal Scientific Officer. 1 Assistant Director (Engineer). 1956 1 Permanent Secretary. 1 Chief Scientific Officer. 2 Deputy Chief Scientific Officers. 3 Senior Principal Scientific Officers. 2 Principal Scientific Officers. 2 Directors (Engineer). 1 Assistant Director (Engineer). 3 Engineers I. 1 Engineer II. 1957 1 Senior Principal Scientific Officer. 1 Director General (Engineer). 3 Directors (Engineer). 1 Assistant Director (Engineer). 1958 1 Chief Scientific Officer. 2 Principal Scientific Officers. 1 Assistant Director (Engineer).
1959 1 Deputy Secretary. 1 Chief Executive Officer. 1 Chief Scientist. 2 Chief Scientific Officers. 2 Assistant Directors (Engineer). 1960 1 Chief Scientific Officer. 1 Deputy Chief Scientific Officer. 1 Director General (Engineer). 1961 1 Permanent Secretary. 1 Deputy Chief Scientific Officer. 1 Principal Scientific Officer. 1 Assistant Director (Engineer). 1962 2 Deputy Chief Scientific Officers. 1 Senior Principal Scientific Officer. 1 Senior Experimental Officer. This includes 17 officers in former Ministry of Supply posts no longer part of the Ministry of Aviation.
The names of the firms concerned at the time of application are as follows:
- Aberdare Cables Ltd.
- Aero Jet General Corporation of America.
- Air Trainers Ltd.
- Albright & Wilson Ltd.
- Aldis Bros. Ltd.
- Appleby and Ireland Ltd.
- Armstrong Siddeley Motors Ltd.
- Blackburn & General Aircraft Co. Ltd.
- B.R.D. Ltd.
- Briggs Motor Bodies Ltd.
- Bristol Aeroplane Co. Ltd.
- Bristol Aircraft Ltd.
- British & French Bank.
- British Communications Corporation Ltd.
- British Motor Corporation.
- British Oxygen Ltd.
- British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd.
- Brockworth Engineering Ltd.
- S. G. Brown Ltd.
- Cogswell & Harrison Ltd.
- Collins Radio Co. of England Ltd.
- Constable Hart & Co. Ltd.
- Coventry Gauge & Tool Co.
- Canadian British Aluminium Co. Ltd.
- Dowty Group.
- B. Elliott & Co. Ltd.
- Ferranti Ltd.
- W. J. Fraser & Co. Ltd.
- Garringtons Ltd.
- General Tire and Rubber Co.
- General Precision Corporation of New York.
- Glass Developments Ltd.
- Glass Yarns & Deeside Fabrics Ltd.
- Guest, Keen & Nettlefold Ltd.
- Hawker Siddeley Group, Ltd.
- Hecht, Levis & Kahn.
- Hispano-Suiza Group.
- Hobourn Aero Components Ltd.
- Hunting Engineering Ltd.
- International Computers & Tabulators Ltd.
- Legal & General Assurance Society Ltd.
- J. Langham Thompson Ltd.
- Manicouagan Power Co.
- Massey Harris Ferguson Ltd.
- Maudslay Motor Co. of Coventry.
- Microcell Aircraft.
- Mullard Equipment Ltd.
101 - Mullard Ltd.
- Nathan Agran Ltd.
- Newman Industries Ltd.
- Jack Olding.
- Painton & Co. Ltd.
- Pena Copper Mines Group.
- Petters Ltd.
- Projectile & Engineering Co. Ltd.
- Pulsometer Group.
- Reynolds T.I. Aluminium Ltd.
- Saben Hart & Partners Ltd.
- Scottish Aviation Ltd.
- Serck Radiators Ltd.
- S.F.I.M. (G.B.) Ltd.
- J. E. Shay Ltd.
- Siemens Bros. & Co. Ltd.
- Silentbloc Ltd.
- Simons Equipment Ltd.
- Standard Telecommunications, Laboratories.
- Taycorn Engineering Co. Ltd.
- F. Taylor & Sons (Manchester) Ltd.
- Tube Investment Research Laboratories.
- Urquharts (1926) Ltd.
- Venesta Foils Ltd.
- Vickers-Armstrong, Ltd.
- S. G. Warburg & Co. Ltd.
- Westland Aircraft Ltd.
There is no record of whether the appointments for which approval has been given were actually made.