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CONFIDENTIAL

C.P.(51) 107

13TH APRIL, 1951

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COPY NO. 3

BALANCE OF CIVIL PAY: CLASS Z AND SIMILAR RESERVISTS

Memorandum by the Chancellor of the Exchequer

At their meeting on 5th April, 1951 (C.M.(51) 24th Conclusions, Minute 5), the Cabinet

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agreed to defer a decision on the question whether civil servants

should receive balance of civil pay in any future war;

invited the Chancellor of the Exchequer to arrange for the

position of Z reservists to be further examined, as proposed in paragraph 13 of the Report annexed to C.P.(51) 99.

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The Class Z reservists are already being called up and both the Treasury, in relation to the Civil Service, and other public employers, such as the Boards of the socialised industries, must take an immediate decision about their treatment. In my view, whatever may be the decision on balance of civil pay in a future war or- indeed in peace-time hereafter, it is not practical politics to abandon it or some treatment comparable with balance of civil pay for those now being called up. The working out of an alternative system of improved war service grants as outlined in C.P.(51) 99 cannot be undertaken at such short notice. If therefore the Cabinet decide against the balance of civil pay system for the long term, due notice will have to be given and reservists called up under the present arrangements will be the last to benefit by it.

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I attach a memorandum, which has been prepared in the Treasury and agreed with the Service Departments and with the Ministry of Labour, which embodies my actual proposals for the Class Z reservists. amount to:-

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(b)

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the granting of balance of civil pay for some 3,000 reservists

being called up for three months and for some 6,000 reservists being called up for eighteen months;

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the granting to those called up for 15 days of a period of paid

leave the period being calculated on a basis broadly similar to, but rather less favourable than, that now used in calculating the number of days' paid leave granted to volunteer members of the Territorial Army.

The second of these proposals is put forward because the administration of balance of civil pay for short periods of call-up would be unduly compli- cated. The broad effect is to give some of those called up for 15 days