Public Sector Bonuses to senior Civil Servants
Last month you may have seen me in the papers calling on the new Secretary of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to stop this year’s bonuses being paid to Senior Civil Servants (SCS) at DECC. And for there not to be a repeat of last year’s scenes when large sums of public money were paid to already highly paid senior civil servants.Last year 86 SCSs at DECC had an annual wage bill of over £8.5M and the bonus pot last year for 22 of them alone was worth almost £180K.
This is just not on, especially when you consider the highest bonus paid to a senior civil servant is probably more than what a cleaner at DECC gets paid in a whole year. In addition, these are already highly paid senior civil servants, the management not your rank and fi le civil servant worker, whose pay ranges from £70,000 – £200,000.
Sadly, this is not the only Department I discovered from Parliamenary Questions that I tabled who are doing this. I have also called on the Home Secretary Theresa May MP, to stop this year’s bonuses being paid to Senior Civil Servants at the Home Office too.
Last year, 204 SCSs at the Home Offi ce had an annual wage bill of over £22.6M and the bonus pot last year for just 54 of them alone was worth almost £300K. When you consider the highest bonus to a senior civil servant last year was £42,000, around the same as the starting salary for two new constables or that of an Inspector, these payments would seem out of touch at a time when 4,000 police officers have lost their jobs in England and Wales since May 2010.
This is just obscene at a time when we are all suppose all be “in it together”, yet with these bonuses the Whitehall mandarin seems to be above not only lower paid staff at DECC and the Home Offi ce, but also pensioners, and low income households in Glasgow North West. A case for senior bonus restraint is needed.
And this is something the government can act on now and there is no excuse not to do so, and I will continue to call on them to act. Last month you may have seen me in the papers calling on the new Secretaryof State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) tostop this year’s bonuses being paid to Senior Civil Servants (SCS) at DECC.
And for there not to be a repeat of last year’s scenes when large sums ofpublic money were paid to already highly paid senior civil servants.Last year 86 SCSs at DECC had an annual wage bill of over £8.5M andthe bonus potlast year for 22 of them alone was worth almost £180K.
This is just not on, especially when you consider the highest bonus paid to a senior civil servant is probably more thanwhat a cleaner at DECC gets paid in a whole year.
In addition, these are already highly paid senior civilservants, the management not your rank and fi le civil servant worker, whose pay ranges from £70,000 -£200,000. Sadly, this is not the only Department I discovered from Parliamenary Questions that I tabled who aredoing this.
I have also called on the Home Secretary Theresa May MP, to stop this year’s bonuses beingpaid to Senior Civil Servants at the Home Offi ce too.Last year, 204 SCSs at the Home Offi ce had an annual wage bill of over £22.6M and the bonus pot lastyear for just 54 of them alone was worth almost £300K.
When you consider the highest bonus to a seniorcivil servant last year was £42,000, around the same as the starting salary for two new constablesor that of an Inspector, these payments would seem out of touch at a time when 4,000 police offi cershave lost their jobs in England and Wales since May 2010.
This is just obscene at a time when we are all suppose all be “in it together”, yet with these bonusesthe Whitehall mandarin seems to be above not only lower paid staff at DECC and the Home Offi ce, butalso pensioners, and low income households in Glasgow North West. A case for senior bonus restraint isneeded.
This is something the government can act on now and there is no excuse not to do so, and I will continueto call on them to act.
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