§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Minister for the Civil Service (1) whether he will list those public servants in addition to those mentioned in the Boyle Committee Report on top salaries who have not had an increase in their basic salaries since 1974: and whether he intends increasing 597W these salaries by as much as 100 per cent. and on average by 30 per cent.;
(2) whether he will detail the grades or numbers of public servants who have not had salary increases as in the case of the most highly paid persons mentioned in the Boyle Committee Report: and whether all of these will be treated in the same way as those mentioned in this report;
(3) whether he will publish in the Official Report a list of the number or groups of public servants who are in the same position as the top paid people, so far as failure to have increases in their basic pay since 1974, excluding the various increases granted in accordance with the incomes policies.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisThere are no public servants whose pay is subject to the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service who have not had a salary increase since 1974.
§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Minister for the Civil Service (1) whether he will give an assurance that on the Government implementing the Boyle Report on the salary increases for the top-paid civil servants or any amended form of this report all civil servants will be able to claim and receive the same form of increases to maintain their gradings and relative pay rates irrespective of the 10 per cent. or any other amended form of wage and salary restraint;
(2) what his estimate is of the cost to the Exchequer if all civil servants had a similar average percentage increase in their salaries as those proposed in the Boyle Committee Report on Top Salaries;
(3) whether, in implementation of the Boyle Committee Report on top salaries or any amended form, he will arrange to pay similar increases to all Government employees.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisThe increases recommended by the Review Body on Top Salaries are applicable only to four groups within its standing terms of reference. But if these increases were applied to other civil servants in place of the increases they have received since 1972, when the Review Body presented its first interim report, the result would be a substantial cut in pay.