Departmental Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much has been spent by his Department on staff reward and recognition schemes in each of the last three years. (248713)

The Department has spent the following on reward and recognition schemes in the past three years.

*£000*
	Financial year
Reward scheme	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Staff suggestion scheme awards	n/a	41	172
Minor Award Scheme awards	738	219	548
Total	738	260	720
n/a = Not available.

The figures exclude the MOD’s trading fund agencies, which are outside the Department’s accounting boundary.

Volume 486: debated on Thursday 22 January 2009