§ Mr. Pattieasked the Secretary of State for Defence whether all officers and other ranks have received in full the increases in salaries with effect from 1st April 1975 recommended by the Fourth Report of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body.
§ Mr. William RodgersThe Government accepted last May all the recommendations in the Report, which covered revised rates of pay and accommodation and food charges, and these were subsequently implemented. Since 1st August 1975 certain officers who have fallen due for incremental increases have had to forgo them, in part or in whole, if they were already earning more than £8,500 a year or if payment of the increment would have taken them above that figure. This is in keeping with the pay policy set out in "The Attack on Inflation" (Cmnd. 6151).