§ Mr. J. E. B. Hillasked the Minister for the Civil Service what further percentage increases are required in Civil Service pensions awarded for 40 years' reckonable service, in the Inner London area, to postmen, clerical officers, executive officers, higher executive officers, senior executive officers and principal executive officers, respectively, retiring at the end of 1951, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965 and 1967, in order to bring them level in money terms with pensions awarded on the same basis to persons in the same grades who retire on 30th June, 1969.
§ Mrs. HartThe two-tier system of inner and outer London weighting was introduced in 1961, the outer London rate corresponding to pre-1961 single London rate. Comparisons for pre- and post-1961 based on inner London rates are therefore not valid, and the table below is based on outer London pay rates for 1961 and following years.
The percentages are as follows:
telephone. I regret that these instructions were not obeyed in the case mentioned by my hon. Friend.