§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Newham, North-West on 28 April, c. 372, he will give whatever information may be available of the salaries or grades of the 512 full and part-time staff in Royal Households and parliamentary bodies; upon what 127W range of Civil Service or public sector grades they are paid; and whether the 6 per cent. cash limits on salary increases have been and are applied to this group of workers.
§ Mr. Peter ReesThe great majority of staff in the Royal Household, of which 355 are full-time and 129 part-time, are paid by analogy with Civil Service grades, but there are some exceptions in respect of staff for which no equivalent grades exist in the Civil Service.
As regards the Parliamentary bodies the breakdown is:
Scale Number University Grades Professional 1 Senior Lecturer 3 Lecturer 8 Clerical Grade 3 *3 †1 Civil Service Grades: Assistant Secretary 1 Principal 3 Senior Executive Officer 1 Higher Executive Officer 1 Executive Officer 1 Senior Personal Secretary 1 Personal Secretary 4 * Full-time. † Part-time. In line with other public service cash limits, the amounts payable to individual Royal Households and parliamentary bodies provide for a 6 per cent. increase in staff earnings from due settlement dates.