Senior Civil Servants: Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many civil servants in (a) Government Departments, (b) executive agencies and (c) non-departmental public bodies are in receipt of a salary of over (i) £100,000, (ii) £150,000 and (iii) £200,000. (312299)

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated 27 January 2010:

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning, how many civil servants in (a) Government departments, (b) executive agencies and (c) non-departmental public bodies are in receipt of a salary of over (i) £100,000, (ii) £150,000 and (iii) £200,000. (312299).

The requested data are attached at Annex A. The estimates for non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) only include crown NDPBs. Employees of crown NDPBs are civil servants and are counted as being in the Civil Service for the purpose of ONS sector employee headcounts.

Annex A

*Number of civil servants in (a) Government Departments, (b) executive agencies and (c) non-departmental public bodies in receipt of a salary of over (i) £100,000, (ii) £150,000 and (iii) £200,000*^1,2,3 All employees, *31 March 2009*
Headcount
	Over £100,000	Over £150,000	Over £200,000

Government Departments	660	110	10
Executive agencies	140	20	⁴—
Non-departmental public bodies	20	⁴—	0
¹Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten. ² Salaries represent actual annual gross salaries. ³ Includes ministerial and non-ministerial Government Departments. ⁴Less than five. Source: Annual Civil Service Employment Survey.

Volume 504: debated on Thursday 28 January 2010