§ LORD STRANGasked Her Majesty's Government:
What further progress has been made in the implementation of the Fulton Report on the Civil Service.
§ THE LORD PRIVY SEAL (LORD SHACKLETON)A further report by the Joint Committee of the Civil Service National Whitley Council will be issued to-morrow. The report records progress in the work directed to the introduction of a unified grading structure, and puts forward a framework within which steps towards this reform can progressively be taken. These steps include a merger of the Administrative, Executive and Clerical classes which is planned for next year. Copies are being widely distributed throughout the Civil Service, in particular to provide a basis for discussion at the annual conferences of the Staff Associations in the spring. I am arranging for copies to be made available in the Printed Paper Office to-night.
The report concentrates on the grading structure of the Civil Service. A report by the Civil Service Department which covers its work as a whole will be published at about the end of April.
House adjourned at five minutes before eight o'clock.