Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officials in his Department, of each grade, have remained at that grade since 2010 but received a pay rise; and how much of a rise each such person at each such grade has received.

The following number of officials have remained at the same grade from 1 January 2011 until 31 July 2014.

In line with Defence Statistics rounding policy all figures have been rounded to the nearest 5, numbers exclude Royal fleet auxiliary, Ministry of Defence (MOD) police, fire fighters, teachers, NHS grades, apprentices, Non Standard Operational Groups and museum workers.

The above figures relate to personnel who have been in employment throughout the period 1 January 2011 – to current date.

For 2011 and 2012 only those staff whose Annual salary was less than £21,000 were entitled to receive a pay award. For these two awards, 19,450 personnel received pay increases of at least £250 per annum.

The pay award for August 2013 saw a 1% increase in salary for all personnel covered by the MOD Main Pay Award and this is reflected in the figures which show that overall 30,050 personnel received a pay increase of at least 1% for the period 1 January 2011 - 1 August 2013. This figure includes the 19,450 personnel that received the pay increase of at least £250 for August 2011 and August 2012.