Committee of Inquiry into Civil Service Pay (Megaw Committee): Records

Minutes, papers and report of the Committee of Inquiry into Civil Service Pay (Megaw Committee), together with evidence and working files.

One of the members, John Chalmers Esq., CBE, produced a Minority Report which is included in the final documents along with the Majority Report. The committee also published, in a separate volume, the reports of five research projects which it commissioned.

The inquiry's papers are arranged in four sections:-

• Section 1: the inquiry's working papers, the series of numbered papers circulated to the Committee (checklist attached) and the agenda, minutes and briefing for the meetings
• Section 2: the written evidence submitted to the inquiry, including evidence published by witnesses which is available for immediate inspection by the public
• Section 3: the secretariat's working files, listed in alphabetical order of subject-heading
• Section 4: the inquiry's report

See Records of the Civil Service Pay Research Unit Board CSPR

Topics

Pay and pensions

Research

The appointment by Lord Soames, Lord President of the Council, of the Committee of Inquiry into Civil Service Pay, under the chairmanship of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Megaw, CBE. TD was announced to Parliament on 29th June 1981, with the following terms of reference:

''Having regard to the public interest in the recruitment and maintenance of an efficient and fairly remunerated Civil Service and in the orderly conduct of the business of Government and its services to the public; to the need for the Government to reconcile its responsibilities for the control of public expenditure and its responsibilities as an employer; to the need for good industrial relations in the Civil Service; and to recent experience of operating the existing arrangements for determining the pay of the non-industrial Civil Service: to consider and make recommendations on the principles and the system by which the remuneration of the non-industrial Civil Service should be determined, taking into account other conditions of service and other matters related to pay, including management, structure, recruitment and grading''.