Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many officials in his Department completed the Civil Service Employment Policy Performance Management System in 2013-14; how many and what proportion of those officials received the (a) exceeded, (b) met and (c) must improve performance mark; and how many and what proportion (i) did and (ii) did not qualify for a bonus under that process.

The Department implemented the Civil Service Performance Management Policy on 1 April 2013 for Administration Officer to Grade 6 staff. On 31 March the end of the first year of implementation was reached.

The overall distribution for the 2013-14 Performance Management year was:

Exceeded 440 (24%)

Met 1271 (73%)

Improvement needed 46 (3%)

Total 1663

A non-consolidated performance related award was made to those in the “Exceeded” category.