To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies paid in end-of-year performance bonuses to (i) all staff and (ii) senior Civil Service staff in 2008-09; and how many such payments were made. (275252)

Information on non-consolidated payments is set out as follows.

All of these payments were made from and funded within existing pay bill controls. Payments to senior civil servants are based on recommendations for the Senior Salaries Review Body.