Civil Service: Salaries

Question

Asked by

Lord Ouseley
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many civil servants are currently paid in excess of (a) £100,000, and (b) £200,000 per annum. [HL824]

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

Letter from Dennis Roberts, Director, Surveys and Administrative Sources Directorate, Office for National Statistics, dated January 2009 to Lord Ouseley.

The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning how many civil servants are currently paid in excess of (a) £100,000 and (b) £200,000 per annum. I am replying in her absence. (HL824.)

The Office for National Statistics collects the annual salaries of civil servants, as part of the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey (ACSES).

At 31 March 2008, there were 700 permanent civil servants earning in excess of £100,000 and 10 permanent civil servants earning in excess of £200,000 (Annex A).

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|Civil servant salaries in excess of (a) £100,000 and (b) £200,000 per annum|                     |                     |
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|Permanent employees                                                        |                     |                     |
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|                                                                           |                     |Headcount            |
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|                                                                           |Greater than £100,000|Greater than £200,000|
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|Number of civil servants1                                                  |700                  |10                   |
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Source: (Unpublished) Annual Civil Service Employment Survey

1 Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10.