Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 21 January 1964.
Mr John Boyd-Carpenter
, Kingston upon Thames
12:00,
21 January 1964
It varies, but it followed the recommendation of the Franks Committee on the Higher Civil Service. Over a period of between four and four-and-a-half years it averaged about 4 per cent. per annum.