Department of Health: Incentives

(asked on 10th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, (a) how many officials in his Department received a performance-related pay bonus and (b) what the cost of those bonuses was to the public purse in each of the last five years for which figures are available.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 13th July 2017

Non-consolidated performance related pay is only paid to reward excellence, for example to recognise and incentivise those responsible for delivering high quality public services and savings to the taxpayer. These one-off payments are not pensionable.

The table below shows how many officials in the Department received a performance related payment and the cost of those payments in each of the last five complete financial years.

Senior Civil Servants (SCS)

Delegated Grades (AO to Grade 6)

Total Cost

*Year

Headcount

Cost

Headcount

Cost

Headcount

Cost

2016

36

£ 381,664

410

£ 396,868

446

£ 778,532

2015

40

£ 434,744

351

£ 335,705

391

£ 770,449

2014

37

£ 405,000

386

£ 373,857

423

£ 778,857

2013

46

£ 495,082

404

£ 388,378

450

£ 883,460

2012

46

£ 388,450

503

£ 487,566

549

£ 876,016

Note: *End of year non-consolidated performance related payments paid in each of the financial years relates to performance in the previous year.

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