Civil Service Reform Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office
Tuesday 19th June 2012

(12 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Maude of Horsham Portrait Mr Maude
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Performance pay is always controversial, whether in the public or private sector. The paper suggests that a voluntary earn-back scheme, such as that suggested by Will Hutton in his report on fair pay, might be worth considering. We will invite the Senior Salaries Review Body to consider such a scheme for the senior civil service. Civil servants would be invited to put, say, 5% of their basic pay at risk, so that they have to earn it back, with the possibility of exceeding it with exceptional performance. That would not feel like a one-way bet.

John Redwood Portrait Mr John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con)
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How will these reforms enable the civil service to deliver much higher quality and with greater accuracy, given the high error rates typical in areas such as benefit distribution?