§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish in HANSARD a list of the various grades of civil servants who, by reason of their terms of appointment, are entitled to periodical increases in their wage and salary scales, with details of their existing grade rates and particulars of the proposed periodical increases; and how these will be affected by the Government's wage and salary standstill.
§ Mr. MacDermotThe 1964 Civil Service Pay Agreement provided for the following periodical central pay increases to be paid to most non-industrial civil servants:—
Per cent. With effect from 1st January, 1964 3 With effect from 1st January, 1965 3½ With effect from 1st January, 1966 3½ These increases have already been paid to the great majority of civil servants entitled to receive them under the terms of the Agreement. Where the increases have not yet been paid they will be subject to the provisions of the White Paper "Prices and Incomes Standstill" (Cmnd. 3073).
Many industrial civil servants until recently received six monthly increases in their wage rates as the result of regular reviews. These reviews have been discontinued following the Report of the National Board for Prices and Incomes on the Pay of Industrial Civil Servants (Cmnd. 3034) while a new industrial pay structure is devised.