Civil Servants and Journalists (Pay)

HC Deb 19 June 1980 vol 986 cc618-20W

Mr. Austin Mitchell

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will circulate in the Official Report a table showing the starting pay for an executive officer of the Civil Service and a journalist based in London in 1950, 1960, 1970 and the years 1972 to date.

Mr. Jim Lester

Relevant information about the salaries of Civil Service executive officers is given in the following table. I regret that no comparable information is available for journalists.

		1950	1960	1970	1970	1972	1973	1973	1974	1975	1975*	1978	1979	1979	1980	1980
		Scales effective from
		1.10.47	1.10.58	1.7.69	1.4.70	1.1.72	1.4.73	7.11.73	1.1.74	1.1.75	1.4.75	1.4.78	1.4.79	1.8.79	1.1.80	7.5.80
		£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£
Minimum	…	230	440	683	741	860	951	1,270	1,387	1,785	1,885	2,549	2,831	2,958	3,200	3,775
Maximum	…	650 (Male and London) rate	1,110 (Male and national) rate Additions to officers in London of £7–£30	1,691 (Men and Women) London Weighting	1,835	2,150	2,288	2,600	2,782	3,492	3,670	4,579	5,043	5,272	5,700	6,745
				Inner London 125	125	175	175	228	228	410	410	524	780	780	780	780
				Outer London 75	75	90	90	110	110	260	260 from 1.7.75	275	275	325	325	325
											Inner London £465
											Outer London £275
* 1975–78 Pay policy

Pay supplement of £313.20 from 1 April 1976; variable threshold payments of 5 per cent. of total earnings (minimum of £130.50 per year) from 1 April 1977. Both these supplements were consolidated into the 1978 minimum salary quoted above.