§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when the decision was taken that the provisions of Command Paper No. 6882 should be imposed to prevent the Department from granting the arbitration salary award to university teachers in 1975.
§ Mr. OakesThe hon. Member presumably has in mind the White Paper of July 1975: "The Attack on Inflation", Cmnd 6151. Cmnd 6882, "The Attack on Inflation after 31st July 1977", set out pay policy for the current period.
The arbitration salary award of June 1975 was implemented in October 1975, in accordance with the transitional arrangements for pay settlements described in paragraph 8 of the paper. What was denied to the university teachers was their expectation that they would also receive a cost-of-living increase related 547W to the change in the retail price index between October 1974 and October 1975. This was ruled out and replaced by the standard pay supplement of £6 per week, together with consolidation of existing threshold payments, in accordance with paragraphs 6 and 7 and the annex to Cmnd 6151.