§ Mr. Andrew F. Bennettasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) if he will estimate the number and percentage of workers who receive annual increments in salary;
(2) if he will estimate the number of workers who will benefit by salary increments outlined in the White Paper "Attack on Inflation".
§ Mr. BoothThe Government do not collect statistics on incremental pay
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March 1975 March 1974 March 1973 March 1972 March 1971 Number of training places … … 825 843 769 643 666 systems. The Office of Manpower Economics report on incremental payment systems provides the most up-to-date information. This showed that in 1973 2.7 million people, that is, 92.6 per cent. of public sector non-manual employees, were on incremental scales. The survey did not provide precise information about non-manual workers in the private sector. It indicated, however, that incremental systems applied to a significant number of managerial, technical and clerical workers in the private sector.
In addition, the survey showed that around 2 million manual workers in both the public sector—about two-thirds of the total—and about a quarter of the manual workers in the private sector are covered by service or annual increments.