Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Instant Rewards of what value were given to his Department's officials in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office operates an in year performance awards scheme for staff below the Senior Civil Service. This is devolved to Directorates as a way of recognising individual or team contributions to business delivery. Directorates determine the number and size of awards granted in a given year up to a ceiling allocation determined by HR Directorate. As such, no data is centrally held on the number of Instant Rewards made to staff by individual Directorates.