§ 53. Dame Irene Wardasked the First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs if he will give an assurance that pensions' credits will be protected in respect of any salary or wages deferments following agreed in creases such as those affecting the National Association of Local Government Officers, the doctors, railway employees, seamen, and police.
§ Mr. William RodgersNo.
§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the First Secretary of State and the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs how the Government's policy with regard to the wage standstill will be applied to those persons, already in receipt of several salaries, who accept and are appointed to part-time, new, or freshly created appointments with additional salaries, and where existing appointments are redesignated at enhanced rates of pay for the purpose of overcoming the objectives of the wage standstill; and whether he will make a statement.
§ Mr. William RodgersThe standstill is expected to apply to all forms of salaries as to other employment incomes. Paragraph 18(iii) of Cmnd. 3073 states explicitly that the regrading of posts as a concealed method of increasing rates of pay would be contrary to the intention of the standstill. The payment of a further160W salary which genuinely reflected additional work would not be inconsistent with the terms of the standstill. But the Government look to all concerned in such cases to show a proper restraint during the next year.