HC Deb 28 January 1980 vol 977 cc459-60W
Mr. Best

asked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will maintain index linking for police pensions.

Mr. Channon

The police are only one of several groups of public servants who receive index-linked pensions, including teachers, local government and Health Service employees, the Civil Service and the Armed Forces. As some concern has been expressed about the Office employed 1,587½ civil servants, mainly on law and order functions. The equivalent figure on 1 January 1980 was 1,536½