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Deputy Secretaries (Equal Pay)

Oral Answers to Questions — Civil Service – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 18 February 1954.

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Miss Ward:

asked the Chancellor of the exchequer how many women deputy secretaries are drawing equal pay.

Photo of Mr John Boyd-Carpenter Mr John Boyd-Carpenter , Kingston upon Thames

Two, Sir.

Miss Ward:

I congratulate my right hon. Friend upon the recent 100 per cent. increase, but is it not most unfair that at the top and at the bottom equal pay should prevail but that in between there is no equal pay? Will he please get rid of this absurd anomaly?

Photo of Mr John Boyd-Carpenter Mr John Boyd-Carpenter , Kingston upon Thames

The hon. Lady is very well aware of the attitude of Her Majesty's Government on this matter, and I do not think I should help her very much by reiterating it again this afternoon.

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