Department for Work and Pensions: Incentives
(asked on 16th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much was awarded to staff of her Department in bonuses in each of the last three financial years.
In 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17 DWP headcount was 89805, 84698 and 83851 respectively. In addition to annual salaries our staff were paid an annual, non-consolidated, performance-related bonus. For the majority of our most junior grades, AA to EO, the amounts were, on average in each year £463.
Total payments were:
| in-year non-consolidated award | end of year non-consolidated award | Total |
2014/2015 | £3,991,001 | £38,141,345 | £42,132,346 |
2015/2016 | £4,095,000 | £35,979,154 | £40,074,154 |
2016/2017 | £5,341,766 | £36,017,851 | £41,359,617 |