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:
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
Total cost (£) 2009-10 452,889 2008-09 373,064 2007-08 477,100 2006-07 413,160 2005-06 293,241