§ Mr. Bryant Godman Irvineasked the Minister of Overseas Development if she will state, for each general scheme of compensation for permanent and pensionable officers in each territory to date, the maximum compensation payable expressed in £ sterling and, where relevant, the post-devaluation value, the number entitled and the percentage of officers who were or are eligible for maximum compensation.
§ Mr. WhitakerDetails of the maximum compensation payable under general schemes introduced to date are set out below. The sterling sums quoted were not affected by devaluation.
Considerable research will be required to provide approximations of the number of entitled officers in each territory and the percentage eligible for maximum compensation. I will send the hon. Member such details as are available when this research has been completed.
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£ (Sterling) Sudan 8500 Ghana 8000 Federation of Malaya 11000 Somalia 10000 Cyprus 12000 Brunei 11000 Nigeria 9000 Sierra Leone 9500 Tanganyika 12000 Zanzibar 12000 East African Common Service Organisation 12000 West Indies Federation (Dissolution) 11000
£ (Sterling) Jamaica 9500 Trinidad & Tobago 9500 Uganda 12000 Singapore 11900 Sabah 12000 Sarawak 12000 Kenya 12000 Malawi 12000 Zambia 12000 Gambia 11500 Guyana 11400 Botswana 12000 Lesotho 12000 Barbados 9500 Antigua 9500 St. Christopher 9500 Nevis Anguilla St. Lucia 9500 Dominica 9500 Grenada 9500 Mauritius 12000 Aden 13200 Swaziland 14000 Bahamas No Maximum St. Vincent 9500
§ Mr. Bryant Godman Irvineasked the Minister of Overseas Development if she will set out in £ sterling at the post-devaluation value a comparative table showing the maximum gross pensionable emoluments of equivalent posts for permanent and pensionable officers, including heads of departments and other super-scale posts, the top of the professional scale and the top of the semi-professional scale; and if she will state for each scheme of compensation introduced so far the maximum compensation factor.
§ Mr. WhitakerIt would be very difficut and possibly misleading to attempt to establish any true comparability between the various scales in force at different times in the 36 countries and administrations in which compensation schemes have been introduced since 1955. If the hon. Member will let me know of any country in which he is specifically interested I will be glad to endeavour to have the relevant information compiled and sent to him.