HC Deb 24 May 1989 vol 153 cc529-30W
Sir Eldon Griffiths

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what local pay additions have been, or are being, negotiated with the trade union side of the Whitley council in respect of Property Services Agency civil servants employed in Cambridge; and if he will publish in theOfficial Report a table of any such supplementary local pay additions as are paid to Cambridge-based officials, but not Newmarket-based staff, by the Property Services Agency, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Department of Trade and Industry, Forestry Commission, Department of the Environment, and other bodies such as the National Institute of Agricultural Botany, in respect of the following grades: AA, AO, Typist, PA and EO.

Mr. Brooke

LPA payments are not a matter for negotiation with the trade union side. However, the trade union side in each Department concerned is consulted prior to their introduction.

The following local pay additions are currently being paid in Cambridge:

Administrative Assistant

  • DTI
  • £300 on entry;
  • £600 after 1 year; reducing to £400 on the maximum of the pay scale.
  • LCD
  • £300 after 6 months.
  • MAFF
  • £300 on entry.
  • PSA
  • £300 on entry.

Administrative Officer

  • DTI
  • £300 on entry;
  • £600 after 1 year; reducing to £400 on the maximum of the pay scale.
  • Forestry Commission
  • £400 after 1 year.
  • LCD
  • £300 after 6 months.

Typist

  • Forestry Commission
  • £400 after 1 year.
  • LCD
  • £300 after 6 months.
  • NIAB
  • £500 on entry;
  • £600 after 1 year.

Personal Secretary

  • DTI
  • £600 on entry.

Executive Officer

  • LCD
  • £300 after 6 months.

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