§ Mr. Hugh Fraserasked the Minister for the Civil Service, assuming an inflation rate of 15 per cent., what would be the index-linked pension on retirement of the lowest grade civil servant entering the service today.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisAssuming that the civil servant serves for 40 years, and that the current superannuation arrangements remain unchanged, his pension would be half his pensionable pay in the best of his last three years of reckonable service. What his pension-
1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 Average prison sentence pronounced for persons received in default of payment of a fine in days 29 29 30 32 35 Average period actually served in prison by persons sentenced in default of payment of a fine in days 13 10 10 11 14 Estimated average direct prison sentence for persons sentenced for breach of the peace (including petty assault) in days 47 48 49 50 52 The figure for breach of the peace excluding petty assaults is readily available only for 1975 when the average sentence was 41 days. All figures given include persons sentenced to young offenders' institutions.
582Wable pay would then be would depend on fair comparison with the movement in pay over the years of comparable workers outside the Civil Service.