§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity whether the Government's decision to give increases in salary to the higher paid civil servants on the grounds that they have not had increases for some years and that the proposed awards fall within the Government's incomes policy of a 3½ per cent. increase per annum will now be applied to all wage and salary earners.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerIncreases not only must be within the ceiling of 3½ per cent. applied as an annual rate since the last increase but must also satisfy the criteria of the White Paper on Productivity, Prices and Incomes Policy. The grounds for the increase to the Higher Civil Service were explained by my right hon. Friend the Paymaster General in a reply to a Written Question on 11th July.—[Vol. 786, c. 320–2.]