Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her timeframe is for signing off on the pay settlement for staff of the Independent Office for Police Conduct
The pay remit process is set out in the Civil Service pay remit guidance 2020/21 published 18 May 2020. Under this guidance Pay Awards for Arms Length Bodies (ALBs), such as the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC), must be approved by the relevant Minister, and then the Home Secretary. There is no laid down timeframe for this approval process.
The IOPC pay award proposals are currently under consideration by the relevant Minister and will be with the Home Secretary shortly.