§ Mr. Joseph Deanasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the total cost in the current financial year of pay and salary increases announced by Her Majesty's Government, to the police, the Armed Forces and the salaries so far affected by the Top Salaries Review Body Committee; and if he will list them.
§ Mr. Biffen, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 11 June 1979],gave the following answer:
£230.5 million. This comprises three elements: (i) £4 million as the cost of 186W implementing the recommendations of the 11th report of the Top Salaries Review Body; (ii) £115 million as the cost of paying from 1 May the second stage of the Edmund-Davies award to the police (the second stage would otherwise have been payable from 1 September at a cost in this financial year of £42 million less); (iii) £111.5 million for paying the final stage of the 1978 Armed Forces Review Body recommended salaries from 1 April 1979 instead of 1 April 1980 as the previous Administration had planned. (The cost of paying the second stage of the 1978 Armed Forces Review Body recommended salaries and updating these salaries, a decision announced by the previous Administration, will be £322 million in this financial year).