§ Mr. Freudasked the Secretary of State for Education if she will publish a table in the Official Report setting out the salaries of clinical academic staff and National Health Service staff at comparable levels of seniority and specialism for each of the last three years.
§ Mr. WaldenThe information requested is as follows.
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Salary scales for clinical academic staff NHS equivalent 1 April 1982 (£) 1 April 1983 (£) 1 April 1984 (£) 1 November 1984 (£) 13,980 14,840 15,670 16,240 4th and 5th points of Associate Specialists Scale 15,110 16,040 16,930 17,560 Senior Lecturers Readers (not holding honorary contracts) 13,980 14,840 15,670 16,240 15,110 16,040 16,930 17,560 16,020 17,010 17,960 18,640 Interpolation of 2nd and 6th points of this 2nd point of scale consultants scale +4.4 per cent. 17,200 18,260 19,280 20,020 18,360 19,490 20,580 21,370 19,410 20,610 21,770 22,620 — Lecturers Senior Lecturers and Readers (holding honorary contracts) 17,370 18,440 19,470 20,200 Consultants scale 18,590 19,740 20,850 21,670 19,820 21,050 22,230 23,140 21,050 22,360 23,610 24,610 22,270 23,660 24,990 26,080 Professors maximum 22,270 23,660 24,990 26,080 — Maximum of consultants scale Salaries scales of clinical staff at universities are derived from NHS scales as shown in the table and parity has been maintained until 1984–85. NHS doctors and dentists have received pay increases averaging 6.3 per cent. from 1 June which would add 5.3 per cent. to the pay bill for the year ending 31 March 1986. The university employers have said that they are unable to apply that increase to clinical academic staff without compensation for the costs in excess of whatever settlement might be agreed for non-clinical academic staff. In the meantime a "without prejudice" interim payment of 4 per cent. has been made with effect from 1 June.