§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he will publish in the Official Report a list of persons or grades as mentioned in Lord Edmund-Davies's report on the salaries of the police and their total annual wage or salary scales prior to and subsequent to the report; what their gross and net pay would be after taxation on the basis of each person being married and claiming a marriage allowance; and what these figures will be after the report's proposed increases and after implementing the 251W budget and proposals on income tax charges.
§ Mr. BrittanThe pay scales of all ranks of the police at the time of publication of the Edmund-Davies committee's report on policy pay (Cmnd. 7283), together with the revised scales recommended by the committee and implemented in full with effect from 1 May 1979, are set out in appendix XI to the committee's report, a copy of which is in the Library of the House. As to the question of taxation, this is a matter for my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer.