End of year bonus payments for staff in Home Office headquarters, the Border and Immigration Agency, and for senior civil servants across the Home Office are linked to performance appraisals. The following table provides the amount paid in end of year bonuses to these staff in the last four years:
Amount paid (£) 2002-03 2,067,878 2003-04 3,361,516 2004-05 4,287,676 2005-06 4,449,667
Figures for 2006-07 are subject to some change as data are not yet complete.
Staff in the Identity and Passport Service receive end of year corporate bonuses, and change agent bonuses. As the corporate bonuses were only introduced in 2003-04 the following table provides information for the last four years only:
Amount paid (£) 2003-04 388,874 2004-05 731,484 2005-06 1,068,482 2006-07 1,253,045
Staff in the Criminal Records Bureau do not receive end of year bonuses.
Data are not available from the Prison Service, who were formally an agency of the Home Office prior to transferring to the Ministry of Justice, as obtaining these data is possible only at disproportionate cost.