HC Deb 13 October 1975 vol 897 cc589-90W
Mr. Anthony Grant

asked the Secretary of State for Defence how many civil servants in his Department are paid more than the various Ministers within it.

Mr. William Rodgers

In the Ministry of Defence there are four civil servants paid more than the Secretary of State, 43 paid more than the Minister of State and 434 paid more than the Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State.

The salaries paid to the Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State fall within the upper and lower limits of scales paid to a further 1,113 civil servants at the Ministry of Defence in a number of different grades. The exact number in these grades currently receiving more than the Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State cannot be established without a disproportionate effort.