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A Clarke Esq

Hong Kong & General Department Foreign & Commonwealth Office London

GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT,

IBRALTAR.

NO $1613 ay 30

3

20 February 1979

Saungram sent. See w/s

$163

Dear Clarke

COLONIAL REGULATION 57

1.

Thank you for your letter of 9 February about the salary level to be laid down in Colonial Regulation 57(ii). The figure of £5,000 which you propose is in our view too low for Gibraltar. Parity of wages and salaries with the civil service in the United Kingdom means that the procedure provided for under Colonial Regulation 59 will take us down to Higher Executive Officers, qualified teachers and Public Health Inspectors. If this year's pay review gives an award approaching 10% we should have all Executive Officers inside the net as well. We should therefore prefer £7,000 (which would at present bring in Senior Executive Officers, PTO Is and Doctors) or £7,500, where they will all undoubtedly be by July of this year. I can see that this may be rather high for those territories where salaries have not yet reached United Kingdom levels. At the cost of cutting across your admirable wish to simplify Colonial Regulations, could you accept for 57(ii) some such wording as "£5,000 per annum or such other figure for particular territories as may be laid down from time to time by the Secretary of State ..."? We should then return to you with a request for a higher figure in respect of Gibraltar than £5,000.

Yours

ever

Robin O'Nei

R J O'Neill