Civil Servants (Salaries)

HC Deb 03 February 1971 vol 810 cc402-3W

Mr. Tom Boardman

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) how many civil servants in his Department are in receipt of salaries in excess of the Ministerial salary payable to each of the Under-Secretaries of State in his Department;

(2) how many civil servants in his Department are in receipt of salaries in excess of the Ministerial salary payable to the Minister of State in his Department;

(3) how many civil servants in his Department are in receipt of salaries in excess of his own Ministerial salary.

Mr. Anthony Royle

The figures for civil servants in this Department, at home and abroad, paid at a flat rate or on a salary scale wholly above the Ministerial salaries (not including Parliamentary allowance) of the Secretary of State, the Minister of State and the Under-Secretaries of State in the Department are as follows:

Above the salary of the Secretary of State	53
Above the salary of the Minister of State	55
Above the salary of the Under-Secretaries of State	713