Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October to Question 200250 on Ministry of Justice: Incentives, how much of the £5,860,748 in non-cash vouchers awarded to staff as performance related bonuses in (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2021-22 went to staff identified in his Department's workforce management information as members of the core ministerial department.

Of the total value of non-cash vouchers awarded to staff as performance related bonuses, the following amounts were made to the core ministerial department as identified within the department’s workforce management information:

For the financial year 2021-22, a total of £772,519 was made to the core ministerial department staff.

For the financial year 2022-23, a total of £425,551 was made to the core ministerial department staff.

For reference, the core ministerial department has a grand total of 7,613 employees as of June 2023.