To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Royall of Blaisdon on 16 March (WA 7) regarding staff bonuses for the Northern Ireland Office, how much funding for bonuses was unused in each of the past five years; and how much was returned unspent. [HL2369]

Funding for bonuses has been fully used in each of the past five years.

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answers by Baroness Royall of Blaisdon on 28 January (WA 62) and 17 March (WA 26) concerning the payment of bonuses to officials of the Northern Ireland Office, why the non-consolidated performance element of pay for staff at grades D2 to A is less than one-seventeenth of that for the senior Civil Service. [HL2371]

There is nothing further I can add to the Answer given on 17 March (Official Report, col. WA 26).