BIG RISES FOR TOP CIVIL SERVANTS IN BRITAIN
(Rec. 8.30) LONDON, Feb. 18 The higher civil servants in Britain will receive big salary increase, but they have told Sir Stafford Cripps that they will accept a postponement of action on the matter. Sir Stafford Cripps, in a written House of Commons reply, said that the Government must accept, in principle. the improved salaries recommended in a report, published as a White Paper, which has suggested increases varying from £1250 a year for the permanent secretary to the Treasury. who is head of the civil service, to £3OO for an assistant secretary. He said the Government hoped that it could give effect to the recomemndation before the end of 1949. The report was prepared by a committee headed by Lord Chorley and it recommends that the permanent secretary of the Treasury receives £5OOO a year —the same salary as a Cabinet Minister. Other permanent secretaries will receive £4500 a year, which is an increase of £lOOO sterling.
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Grey River Argus, 19 February 1949, Page 5
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