§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will quantify as a percentage the average increase in the amounts payable under the Civil List Acts for 1981; what considerations have led to the increase; and what regard was paid to the extent to which staff paid from these amounts are paid in accordance with Civil Service linkages and the present 6 per cent. limit on pay increases within the Civil Service.
§ Sir Geoffrey HoweThe total amount payable under the Civil List Acts in 1981–82 is £4,355,000, an increase of 10 per cent. over the corresponding figure of £3,959,000 for 1980–81. The amounts payable to individual Royal Households were set out in my answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Halesowen and Stourbridge (Mr. Stokes) on 10 March 1981.— [Vol. 1000, c.304–5.] In line with other public service cash limits, the figures provide for an increase in prices of 11 per cent. between 1980–81 and 1981–82 and, on pay, for a 6 per cent. increase in staff earnings from due settlement dates, together with provision, equivalent to a further 2 per cent., for the full year costs of settlements in 1980–81.