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slightly better treatment than balance of civil pay would give them and others slightly worse. It would only be materially more favourable in the cabeghly paid staff, who will be very fewagerhin the7e- fore that it can be accepted as doing rough and ready justice while avoiding the complexities involved in any possible alternative.
4.
It is clear that the longer we continue to give balance of civil pay or anything like it the harder it will be to abandon the principle in the future. It would therefore be prudent to reach an early conclusion on the question of balance of civil pay on the long term.
5.
I therefore recommend that:-
(a)
(16)
The proposals set out in the attached memorandum and
briefly summarised above for the treatment of Class Z reservists should be endorsed.
A decision should be taken now on the question whether the
balance of civil pay system is to be approved for the future, whether in war or in peace.
Treasury Chambers, S.W.1,
13TH APRIL, 1951.
H.G.