The table that appears in answer to the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) on 22 July 2008, Official Report, column 992W, on departmental pay, was based on incomplete data and should have read:
Number Percentage 2006-07 67 out of 87 77 2007-08 72 out of 96 75
Department for International Development (DFID) senior civil service (SCS) members are eligible for a non-consolidated bonus award. Bonuses are intended to reward delivery of personal business objectives during the reporting year or other personal contributions to wider organisational objectives. In considering SCS members for bonus, an SCS pay committee takes into account:
performance against agreed priority business objectives or targets;
total delivery record over the year;
relative stretch (i.e. the challenge of the job compared to that of others); and
response to unforeseen events that affected the performance agreement.
DFID paid a total of £504,000 in non-consolidated bonuses to 62 senior civil servants for the 2006-07 reporting year and £641,510 in non-consolidated performance bonuses to 71 senior civil servants for the 2007-08 reporting year.
The following table gives a breakdown of the number of bonuses, awarded to DFID’s SCS, in each category in each year:
Number eligible for bonus Number of nil bonuses Number of low bonuses Number of medium bonuses Number of high (maximum) bonuses 2006-07 87 25 n/a 42 20 2007-08 96 25 10 37 24
The highest bonuses for 2006-07 were all fixed at £12,500. The five highest bonuses for 2007-08 were: £22,700; £20,685; £20,048; £18,422; and £14,612.
The process used to determine the level of bonuses in these years differed. In 2006-07 bonuses were paid at a flat rate. In 2007-08 bonuses were paid as a percentage of base salary.
The table that appears in answer to the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) on 22 July 2008, Official Report, column 992W, on departmental pay, should have read:
Number Percentage 2006-07 67 out of 87 77 2007-08 72 out of 96 75
Of the 96 DFID senior civil servants (SCS) eligible, to be considered, for a performance bonus in 2007-08, 68 were based in the UK and 28 were based overseas.