§ 27. Mr. Bob Dunnasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if cash limits will in future include the cost of wages and salaries in the Civil Service before pay settlements have been reached.
§ Mr. BrittanWe have undertaken to enter the Civil Service pay negotiations next year without a pre-determined limit on the cost of the settlement. Naturally in negotiating the level of pay for the Civil Service, as for other public services, we must continue to have regard to what the country can afford.