I move:
That a sum not exceeding £303,000 be granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1964, for Remuneration of Civil Servants.
Deputies are aware of the recent national agreement on wage and salary adjustments. A claim for a 15 per cent increase in Civil Service pay was made in September last under the conciliation and arbitration scheme and agreement was reached on 4th February, 1964, on an increase in Civil Service pay within the framework of the national agreement with effect from 1st February, 1964. Under the terms of the agreed Civil Service increase, existing rates of pay are increased by 12 per cent with a minimum increase of £1 a week for certain full time male officers.
Following representations from the Association of Higher Civil Servants, it was decided to extend the 12 per cent increase to officers above the salary limit for arbitration.
To meet the cost of this pay revision for the Civil Service proper, a sum of the order of £2½ million will be necessary in a full year; this sum will be somewhat increased to meet the cost of providing similar increases for certain non-Civil Service groups e.g., sub-postmasters. For the two months of the current financial year to which it applies, the additional sum required is estimated at £303,000, allowing for available savings.
