Drawing Office Assistants and Tracers (Pay)

HC Deb 20 December 1966 vol 738 c253W

Mr. Farr

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he has decided whether drawing office assistants and tracers in the Civil Service will receive a pay award on 1st January, 1967.

Mr. Diamond

No decision can be taken until the negotiations on the pay of these grades have been completed. These will be resumed as soon as practicable after the current discussions with the Staff Side of the National Whitley Council on the application of the White Paper "Prices and Incomes Standstill: Period of Severe Restraint" to the civil service have been concluded. Payment of revised salaries in the period of severe restraint will depend upon the extent to which they are justified under the criteria for this period.