§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what position is held by Mr. W. G. Pottinger; what his present salary is; how long he has held this position; and what previous appointments he held in the Civil Service, and on what dates.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellMr. Pottinger has been Secretary of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland since 1st November, 1971, with a recently revised annual salary of £10,500.
Mr. Pottinger's earlier posts were in the former Scottish Home Department, where he was employed from 1939 to 1959 mainly on work in connection with local government, personnel and legal services; in the Scottish Development Department from 1962 to 1964 on local government, town and country planning, and tourism; from 1964 to 1968 mainly at the Scottish Office in London on a variety of duties including regional development and forestry; and in the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland from 1968 on price and support policy and animal and plant health.
Mr. Pottinger was on war service from 1939 to 1945. He was subsequently detached from departmental duties from 1950 to 1952 to act as Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Scotland, and from 1952 to 1954 to act as Secretary to the Royal Commission on Scottish Affairs; and he was seconded from 1959 to 1962 to work under the auspices of the Scottish Tourist Board (in association with the late Lord Fraser of Allander—then Mr. Hugh Fraser) on the development of the tourist industry in the Highlands.