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Departmental Pay

Volume 497: debated on Wednesday 14 October 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what employee reward schemes are offered to staff of his Department; what the purpose of each scheme is; how many staff participate in each scheme; and what the cost of operating each scheme was in each of the last five years. (290548)

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport offers two such schemes: (a) special bonuses to reward outstanding contributions in particularly demanding tasks or situations, and (b) consistent with the general civil service principles of performance-related pay, to reward highly successful performance over a whole year. All permanent employees of the Department are eligible to receive either, subject to meeting the performance criteria. The costs of running this scheme for the past five years are set out as follows:

Special bonuses

Total cost (£)

2009-10

121,800

2008-09

60,855

2007-08

87,000

2006-07

69,565

2005-06

57,141

1 Year to date

Performance bonuses

Total cost (£)

2009-10

452,889

2008-09

373,064

2007-08

477,100

2006-07

413,160

2005-06

293,241