§ Miss Fookesasked the Minister for the Civil Service if any recommendations on Civil Service pay emanating from the next report of the Pay Research Unit will be subject to Government guidelines on incomes.
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§ Mr. Charles R. Morris:The Civil Service Pay Research Unit's reports are purely factual and do not include recommendations on Civil Service pay. They will provide the basis for negotiations leading to a settlement from 1st April 1979, subject as in the past to national pay policy. For further detail about the unit's work I would refer to the answer I gave on 5th December to the Question from the hon. Member for Cambridge (Mr. Rhodes James).—[Vol. 959, c. 563–64.]