asked Her Majesty's Government:

Further to the Written Answer by Lord Patel of Bradford on 14 October (WA 45) concerning payment of bonuses to civil servants, whether the bonuses were agreed with the appropriate trade unions. [HL5695]

Further to my Written Answer of 14 October (WA 45), Civil Service reward, including bonus arrangements for civil servants outside the senior Civil Service (SCS), is a matter for individual departments and agencies to negotiate with their own local trade unions. Information on the detail of these negotiations between individual departments and the local trade unions is not collated centrally—to do so would incur disproportionate cost. Under the centrally managed arrangements for the SCS, the independent Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) makes recommendations to the Government on reward policy for the SCS each year. The First Division Association, which represents senior civil servants, submits its own evidence to the SSRB, but does not have negotiating rights.