Civil Service: Performance Pay

Question

Asked by

Lord Newby
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 20 April (WA 318) concerning the amount of funding for Senior Civil Servants' performance-related pay, what were the figures requested. [HL3636]

The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change & Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Lord Hunt of Kings Heath)
Funding for Senior Civil Servants' performance-related pay is calculated as a percentage of the total pay bill. The attached table summarises the paybill figures for each year since 2005 and the percentage of the paybill that was applied as performance-related pay, in line with SCS pay policy set by the Cabinet Office, following recommendations by the Senior Salaries Review Body.

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|Year               |2005       |2006       |2007       |2008       |2009       |
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|SCS Paybill        |£14,177,765|£18,135,458|£19,208,849|£17,199,520|£18,570,568|
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|Performance Pay Pot|5.0%       |6.5%       |7.6%       |8.6%       |8.6%       |
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