§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that civil servants who were in receipt of a salary of £3,250 in 1964 have had this reduced in purchasing value to £2,806 10s.; how many were in this salary scale in 1964; how many have 72W not received an increase to date; and what, on average, have been the salary increases to the remainder.
§ Mr. Harold LeverAll civil servants who in 1964 were earning £3,250 have since received increases through normal progression up incremental scales and by adjustments to those scales under normal Civil Service pay procedures. About 3,500 civil servants were on scales spanning £3,250 in 1964 but the effort required to identify and count those on this scale point would not be justified. The average increase at the mean of the scales of the larger grades in question, constituting about half of the 3,500 staff, has been 5.8 per cent.