§ Mr. Marlowasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the average redundancy pay and starting pension for a civil servant of average period of service retiring in the following circumstances: as an assistant secretary aged 56 years 11 months, as a senior principal aged 57 years 9 months, as a principal aged 56 years 10 months.
§ Mr. Hayhoe[pursuant to his reply, 28 July 1982]: Mobile civil servants of the ages specified, who are retired in the public interest with five or more years' reckonable service, may be paid their retirement lump sums immediately, annual compensation payments equal to their preserved pensions, and lump sum compensation payments of up to six months' pensionable pay. For the purposes of calculating their lump sums and preserved pensions, reckonable service may be increased by up to 6⅔ years, but may not exceed what they would have had by the normal retiring age. Assuming that those in question would have retired on 31 July 1982 on the maximum of their national pay scales and with 35 years' actual reckonable service, the amounts would be as follows:
Retirement lump sum Compensation lump sum Annual compensation £ £ £ Assistant Secretary 31,707 10,665 10,569 Senior Principal 27,835 6,382 9,278 Principal 22,826 7,661 7,609