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amount on which allowance is payable
the percentages to be so arranged that
no officer receives more salary and
allowance than his first senior officer
above the time scale.
Grisis
I may add that
this was the germ of the scheme adopted
in the Home Civil Service for the
payment of a "cost of living" bonus
prior to the recent consolidation of
salaries. I enclose a table showing,
for Administrative, Medical and Legal
officers, the effect of granting a
residential allowance of 10% of the
first £400, 5% of the next £400, and
21% of the next £400; no allowance would
be payable on any part of salary in
excess of £1,200, and an officer in
receipt of a salary of £1,300 or more
would get no allowance at all. I should
wish you to consider whether it might
not be desirable to adopt a scheme on this
basis
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