asked the Minister for Defence if he will state the percentage increase in the pay of high ranking officers, lower ranking officers, junior officers and serving soldiers.
- Army Pay Increases.
asked the Minister for Defence if he will state whether it is intended to grant increases in pay, proportionate to those already given to senior ranks, to junior ranks in the Defence Forces (permanent force).
With your permission, Sir, I propose to take Questions Nos. 39 and 40 together.
The following are the percentage increases in pay granted, as from 1st September, 1949, to single personnel of the Forces of all ranks as well as the combined percentage increases in pay and lodging, fuel and light allowance granted to married officers and in pay and "wife's allowance" granted to married soldiers. Where an officer rank carries an incremental scale of pay, the maximum rate of pay for the rank has been taken——
I hope the Minister realises that there are 109 questions on the paper.
With your permission then, Sir, I will circulate the list with the Official Report.
Is the House not entitled to get the information?
It will be circulated with the Official Report.
It is the usual practice, where there is a tabular statement or large numbers of figures, to have it circulated with the Official Report.
If the Deputy is itching for the information at the present moment, with the permission of the Chair and the House, I will give it.
The Chair is only anxious that all the questions be asked. There are 109 questions, and if every Deputy insists on asking supplementaries to the extent to which they are being asked we will not have reached the end of them by 6 o'clock.
Following are the particulars:—
|
Single |
Married |
|
|
% |
% |
|
|
Major-General |
10.95 |
15.92 |
|
Colonel |
14.63 |
20.41 |
|
Lieut.-Colonel |
14.70 |
21.43 |
|
Commandant |
7.14 |
16.67 |
|
Captain |
13.64 |
16.67 |
|
Lieutenant |
Nil |
8.00 |
|
2/Lieutenant |
Nil |
(2/Lieutenants are ordinarily unmarried). |
|
Sergeant-Major |
9.09 |
11.11 |
|
B.Q.M.S. |
10.00 |
12.00 |
|
Company Sergeant |
10.53 |
12.50 |
|
C.Q.M.S. |
11.11 |
13.04 |
|
Sergeant (Technician) |
11.76 |
13.64 |
|
,, (Line) |
12.50 |
14.29 |
|
Corporal (Technician) 2-Star |
13.33 |
15.00 |
|
,,,,1-Star |
14.29 |
15.79 |
|
Corporal (Line) 2-Star |
14.29 |
15.79 |
|
,,,,1-Star |
15.38 |
16.67 |
|
Private (Technician) 3-Star |
15.38 |
16.67 |
|
,,,, 2-Star |
18.18 |
18.75 |
|
,,,, 1-Star |
22.22 |
21.43 |
|
,, (Line)3-Star |
18.18 |
18.75 |
|
,,,, 2-Star |
20.00 |
20.00 |
|
,,,, 1-Star |
22.22 |
21.43 |
The considerations which governed the increases in pay were not of a nature which would have been met by the same proportionate increase for all ranks, and it is not proposed to review the rates of pay from that viewpoint.