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The Ridley Commission recommended that there should be three grades of clerks in the Upper Division, viz. :——

•

Balary of Office.

Minimain.

Annual Increment.

Maximum.

No.

Minimum.

Angual Increments.

Maximum.

Principal Clerks

£ 850

£

Treasury.

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2 Secretaries

£ 2,000

£

After 5 years 2,800

Ist-Class Clerks

2nd-Class Clerks

600

200

48 28

60

£ 1,000

25

800

20

500

1 Assistant Secretary

•

1,500

Nil

1,600

8 Principal Clerks

-

1,000

£50

1,200

2,000

Home Office.

1 Under-Secretary of State 2,000

Nil

鱼

1

Assistant Under-Secre-

1,200

After 5 years 1,500

tary (legal).

1

Assistant Under-Secre-

1,000

£50

1,200

tary.

2,000

Foreign Ofice.

1 Under-Secretary of State 2,000

Nil

.1

Assistant Under-Secre

1,500

Nil

1,600

11

1,200

Ni

3

1,200

#

1,000 After 5 years | 1,200

Legal Advisor

1,200

Superintendent of Afri-

1,000

| After 5 years | 1,200

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Colonial Office.

1 Under-Secretary of State 2,000

1+Amirions Under-Secre-

2,000

Nil

1,200

After 5 years) 1,600

1,200

Mi

1,200

1,000

After 53

1,200

towed that the soule of salaries béinga: the Pringipal Clerk there

jaff: Offloers. But

in the Treasury

( Chikh in higher tham that

Departmenta

These scales have been adopted in the Colonial Office; but not in the Treasury, or in the Home or Foreign Offices, where the scales are as follows: —

Home Office.

Treasury.

£1,000-50-1,200

700-25-900

200-20-500

£900—50—1,000

700-25-800

200-20-500

Foreign Ofios.

£90050-1,000

57:1

700-25—8001 |

200-20-800 -53

n, 100-20----200

The Principal Clerks in the Treasury are thus paid as much as the Junior Assistant Under-Secre- taries in the Home Office, and more (as they rise from 1,000l. a year to 1,2001. by annual increments of 50%.) than the Junior Assistant Under-Secretaries in the Foreign and Colonial Offices (who only get an increment of 2007. after five years instead of annual increments of 501.). In other respects, however, the Principal Clerks in the Treasury appear to be in precisely the same position as the Principal Clerks in the Colonial Office. The basis of the organisa- tion in both cases is the distribution of the consul- tative and deliberative work between departments (called "divisions in the Treasury), consisting normally of a Principal, a Senior, and one or more Junior Ülerks. As there are five divisions in the Treasury, and about 20,000 papers a year, each divi- sion has to deal with, approximately, 4,000 papers a year; while in the Colonial Office, with about 50,000 papers a year and eight Departments, each Department has to deal with approximatelý 6,250. papers a year.

The above details are necessary in order to discus a question which has been raised by the Treasury unofficially on more than one occasion. It is alleged that it is unnecessary to have in the Colonial Olión both Assistant Under-Secretaries and Principal Clerks, and it has been suggested that, if one of these classes were abolished, the Treasury would be willing that the remaining class should be placed on the same scale as Principal Clerks in the Zuksury vis., 1,000l. rising by amual increments of 501, so 1,2004, a year. It is even been suggested that. the members of this class should all be called Assistant Under-Secretaries.

PUB RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

C.O. 885

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IC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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