Civil Service Pay

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To ask the Minister for the Civil Service if he will make a statement about the discretionary pay scheme for grades 2 and 3 staff in the home civil service.

In the fourth and last round of awards under the arrangements announced by my right hon. Friend the then Prime Minister on 23 April 1987, awards

		July	August	September	¹October	November	December	²January
Ff/£	high	10·06	10·18	9·96	10·15	9·90	9·83	9·97
	low	9·56	9·88	9·75	9·82	9·74	9·72	9·80
DM/£	high	3·006	3·034	2·981	3·025	2·936	2·903	2·926
	low	2·929	2·946	2·904	2·929	2·887	2·852	2·888
Lira/£	high	2195	2255	2225	2267	2205	2180	2200
	low	2150	2155	2170	2200	2175	2155	2180
Maximum £ deviation from central rate per cent.	above	—	—	—	+2·70	—	—	+1·05
	below	—	—	—	-4·15	-4·25	-4·67	-4·04
¹ From 8 October 1990.
² To 13 January 1991.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give the inflow and outflow to and from and the net gain or loss to the reserves from the date of joining the exchange rate mechanism to the latest available date and for the equivalent period before joining.

Net changes to the reserves in the three months before and after sterling's entry to the ERM are as follows:

$million
	Total change	Level of reserves at end of month
July	-172	38,842
August	+455	39,297
September	-237	39,060
October¹	-488	38,572

have been made to 21 grade 2s and 53 grade 3s. The total number of staff currently granted awards following four rounds of the scheme is 41 grade 2s and 157 grade 3s, respectively 29 per cent. and 32 per cent. of each grade. This is within the ceiling of 35 per cent. of each grade recommended by the Top Salaries Review Body.

The full-year cost of these awards is approximately £565,000 or about 1·9 per cent. of the annual pay bill for the grades concerned. The scheme is due to be replaced by new arrangements in April 1991.

Volume 183: debated on Tuesday 15 January 1991