The Ministry of Justice employs staff previously employed on several sets of different terms and conditions, each with their own arrangements for bonus payments. The information provided in the following table relates to former DCA Senior Civil Service (SCS) and grades below SCS. It excludes magistrates courts staff who became civil servants within this Department in April 2005 and whose terms and conditions do not normally allow for payment of performance or special bonuses. It also excludes those staff in the Tribunals Service and who joined former DCA on 1 April 2006 for whom information is not currently available.
Information for Her Majesty’s Prison Service (below SCS) is provided.
Paid in calendar year Staff receiving bonuses Proportion receiving bonuses (Percentage) Total amount awarded (£) Largest award (£) 2003 43 46 170,557 6,500 2004 69 72 268,900 11,200 2005 105 84 537,687 12,690 2006 118 79 821,750 17,500 20071 — — — — 1 No bonuses have yet been paid to members of the SCS during 2007
Paid in financial year Staff receiving bonuses Proportion receiving bonuses (Percentage) Total amount awarded (£) Largest award (£) 2002-03 995 7 253,258 — 2003-04 447 3.1 343,347 — 2004-05 1,649 11.6 412,898 5,304 2005-06 1,809 12.8 487,753 5,000 Notes: 1. Data show payments for each financial year from 2002-03. Comprehensive information is not yet available for 2006-07. 2. Data covering largest award are not available prior to 2004 when the current recognition and reward scheme was launched. 3. Proportions refer to the number of staff eligible to be awarded special bonuses under their terms and conditions (i.e. these exclude former Magistrates Courts Service Staff).
Paid in calendar year Staff receiving bonuses Proportion receiving bonuses (Percentage) Total amount awarded (£) Largest award (£) 2003 1,131 9.27 502,030 725 2004 1,430 9 572,000 400 2005 1,881 13.3 752,400 400 2006 1,995 14.1 798,000 400 2007 1,848 13.2 739,200 400 Notes: 1. Data referring to Proportion of staff receiving bonuses refer only to staff on relevant terms and conditions (i.e. only include former DCA and Court Service Staff but exclude staff on Magistrates Courts terms and conditions). 2. Prior to 2003 performance bonuses in former LCD were linked to grade—from 2004 a flat rate was applied.
HM Prison Service became an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice on 9 May 2007.
Information on the number and proportion of staff receiving special bonuses, the total amount of bonuses awarded and the largest payment in each year within the public sector Prison Service is contained in the following table:
Paid in financial year Staff receiving bonuses Proportion receiving bonuses (Percentage) Total amount awarded (£) Largest award (£) 2002-03 1,268 3 463,449 4,000 2003-04 1,983 4 740,443 4,000 2004-05 3,375 7 868,594 5,000 2005-06 3,004 6 983,273 15,802 2006-07 2,432 5 873,141 5,000 April-June 07 518 1 250,453 20,000
Details of staff who joined the Ministry of Justice from the Home Office are currently being collated. Therefore it has not been possible to identify Ministry of Justice staff on former Home Office terms (including from the National Offender Management Service) who received bonuses under their previous schemes within the available timescales.