Mr. AnthonyGrant asked the Secretary of State for Wales how many civil servants in his Department are paid more than the various Ministers within it.
§ Mr. John MorrisThe information relating to the Secretary of State was given by the Minister for the Civil Service on 1st August in reply to a question from the hon. Member for Ashford (Mr. Speed).
The salaries paid to the Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State fall within the limits of the scales paid to Senior Principals, Assistant Secretaries and their professional equivalents. The total number 687W of staff in these grades is 122 and it is not possible without disproportionate cost to ascertain how many of these are being paid more than the Ministers.—[Vol. 896, c. 669.]