§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) whether he will give an assurance that on the Government implementing the Boyle committee report on top salaries, or any amendment thereof, he will ensure that all staff and workers in the industries and services where these increases are to apply will be able to claim and receive the same increases to maintain comparabilities and differentials in wage and salary rates irrespective of the 10 per cent. or any other form of amended wage and salary restraint; and to what extent he estimates these increases would affect the cost of living index figures;
(2) whether he will give the actual or estimated number or staff, workers, and employees in all of the industries and services covered by the Boyle committee report on top salaries; and to what extent he estimates the total wage and salary bills of these industries and services would increase if all the workers were to receive the same salary and wage increases on an average percentage basis as those proposed in the Boyle Report.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerThe report of the Review Body on Top Salaries covers the chairmen and members of the boards of nationalised industries, the higher judiciary and certain other judicial appointments, senior civil servants and senior officers of the Armed Forces. The approximate numbers of employees in the related industries and services are as follows:
- Nationalised industries—2,110,000.1
- Civil Service (industrial and non-industrial)—735,600.
- Armed Forces—328,000.
- Legal services—110,000.
- 1 Includes all organisations in which the NEB has a holding.
As the report covers only the personnel within the Review Body's standing remit, it would be inappropriate to extend its recommendations further.