§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer for each of the years 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1982, what is the percentage amount of the Civil Service basic pay award, the number of employees in that year and 307W the total payroll cost increase for that year as a result of the basic award, and the actual payroll cost for that year; and how much, in percentage terms, the incremental pay scheme may have cost in each of these years over and above the basic award.
Financial year and pay awards* Total pay provision in Supply Estimates† Increase over provision in previous years Supply Estimates Average number of staff provided for £ million £ million 1976–77 Phase I incomes policy, £6 per week supplement (worth about 10 per cent, for non-industrials and 12–13 per cent, for industrials) 2,816 646 761,481 1978–79 Phase II incomes policy consolidation plus 9½ per cent, on 1 April 1975 rates for non-industrials (worth about 10 per cent, in all) and consolidation plus 9 per cent, on 1 July 1975 rates for industrials (worth about 10.7 per cent, in all) 3,266 201 742,582 1980–81 Non-industrials—pay research, 18.75 per cent, in full year but about 16.5 per cent, after deferment of operative date to 7 May 1980. Industrials—negotiated settlement worth 16.9 per cent. 4,627 883 703,509 1982–83 Non-industrials—arbitration award 5.9 per cent, industrials—negotiated settlement worth 6 per cent. 5,185 183 666,068 * 1 April settlement date for non-industrials and 1 July settlement date for industrials unless otherwise stated. † As published in past editions of the memorandum by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Supply Estimates). Figures relate to the provision made in orginal Supply Estimates for the total pay cost of industrial and non-industrial staff of Central Government Departments, excluding trading funds. Includes casuals but these are not included in staff numbers. Changes in the paybill from one year to the next include the effects of changes in pay rates (including staging, grade structure, overtime working, employers' national insurance contributions and staff numbers. Also reflected in the case of non-industrial civil servants is the net change in the cost of wages and salaries resulting from the operation of the incremental system. For 1982–83 it is estimated that increments will have added about 0.5 per cent. to the non-industrial paybill. This reflects the manpower reductions which have taken place aimed at reducing the size of the service as a whole to 630,000 by April 1984.