HC Deb 24 November 1994 vol 250 cc247-8W
Mr. Kaufman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the salary and other emoluments of the civil servant who did the work of, or work comparable to that of, the chief executive of each next steps agency established by his Department before the agency was established.

Mr. Robert B. Jones

This Department has five next steps agencies—the Building Research Establishment, the Planning Inspectorate, the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, the Security Facilities Executive and the Buying Agency. The salary of the official in the post equivalent to that of chief executive in the month before the creation of each agency was as follows:

  • BRE (March 1990) £39,300 (+£2,000 London Allowance)
  • PINS (March 1992 £48,000
  • QEII CC (June 1989) £32,826 (+£1,750 London Weighting)
  • SAFE (September 1993) £45,959 (+£1,776 London Weighting)
  • TBA (October 1991 £39,402

All these officials were paid under the normal arrangements for their respective civil service grade, and were not in receipt of any other emoluments.