Home Office: Senior Civil Servants

(asked on 2nd May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the performance related bonuses paid to senior civil servants in his Department by grade and in each of the last six years; and what were the justifications for each of those payments.


Answered by
Victoria Atkins Portrait
Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 9th May 2018

The Home Office publishes transparency returns each year on bonuses and in addition provides a breakdown by grade for PB2, PB3 and PB4 Board members in the Annual Report https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2016-to-2017

We follow Cabinet Office guidance on Senior Civil Servants’ (SCS) performance management and in accordance with this guidance only the top 25% of the Department’s SCS members are eligible for consideration of a non-consolidated, non-pensionable year-end performance award (bonus) following an objective assessment of individual performance at the Senior Pay and Performance Committee, chaired by the Permanent Secretary.

Transparency returns are published= and cover the period 2011 to 2016. The returns for 2017 are awaiting publication and will also include in-year SCS bonus awards which were introduced last year by Cabinet Office.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=&publication_filter_option=transparency-data&topics%5B%5D=all&departments%5B%5D=home-office&official_document_status=all&world_locations%5B%5D=all&from_date=&to_date

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