Pay of the Higher Civil Service
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1957.tb01194.x |
| Published date | 01 June 1957 |
| Date | 01 June 1957 |
Pay
of
the Higher Civil Service
Standing
Advisory
Committee Appointed
The appointment of a standing advisory committee on the pay of the Higher
Civil Service,
in
accordance with the recommendation of the Royal
Commission
on
the Civil Service, was announced from
10
Downing Street
on
7th February, 1957.
Chairman
:
Lord Coleraine.
Members
:
Sir Alexander Cam-Saunders,
Mr.
Geoffrey Crowther, Sir
Alexander Fleck,
R.B.E.,
Sir Oliver Franks,
G.c.M.G.,
K.c.B.,
and
Lord Latham.
The Royal Commission recommended that the Prime Minister should
make the appointments after consulting staff interests informally.
It
was
also
suggested that they should be people
“
chosen to reflect a cross-section
of informed opinion
in
the country at large.”
(An
article on the Royal
Commission’s Report appeared at pages 187-198 of the Summer, 1956,
issue of PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION,
and a survey of the measures taken to
implement the Report at pages 321-328
of
the Autumn, 1956, issue.)
Terms
of Reference
1. The
function
of the Committee is stated in general terms in para-
graph 386 of the Royal Commission’s Report-namely, to exercise a general
oversight of the remuneration
of
the Higher Civil Service.
2.
The Royal Commission defined the Higher Civil Service
in
paragraph
15
as “all staffs whose salary maximum or whose fixed rate exceeds the
maximum
of
the Principal.” Under their recommendation
this
maximum
was raised to E1,850
;
it has now been settled at E1,950.
3.
The Royal Commission’s main recommendations
on
the Higher
Civil Service are contained in Chapter
IX
of its Report. Having accepted
these recommendations, the Government have put into effect the rates of
pay which the Royal Commission in paragraphs 367-69 regarded as
appropriate for the Higher Civil Service. The rates recommended by the
Royal Commission were related to conditions prevailing in the middle of
1955
;
they came into operation with effect from 1st April, 1956.
4. Under the Royal Commission’s recommendations the Committee will
be called into action in various ways
:
(a)
In the exercise of its general oversight of the remuneration of the Higher
Civil Service, to advise the Government, either at the latter’s request or
on
its own initiative,
on
what changes are desirable in the remuneration
of these officers. The Royal Commission suggested (paragraph 368)
that
an
early review of the level of remuneration would be called for,
since they had deliberately refrained from making recoinmendations which
might suggest that the Civil Service was in any way setting the pace or
being in the van of a movement for a new approach
to
salaries for senior
staffs.
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