Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many of his Department's staff had a pay increase (a) above, (b) at and (c) less than one per cent in each of the last three years for which information is available.

2015: DWP’s 2015 pay award was subject to the public sector pay constraint of a 1% cap on increases. 99.8% within grades AA to Grade 6 received an increase of 1%. A small number of individuals on the AA pay scale minimum received an increase of 2.5%.

2016: Following the 2015 Spending Review, DWP received limited pay flexibility for operational grades (AA-HEO) to support the transformation of its service. In the 2016 pay award 78% of staff within these operational grades received a pay uplift greater than 1% but no more than 5%. 16% of staff received an uplift of less than 1%. Grades SEO to Grade 6 (5.8% of workforce) were not included within the pay flexibility and received uplifts of 1%.

2017: The 2017 pay award resulted in 78.5% of the workforce receiving pay uplifts greater than 1% but no more than 5%.15.4% of employees received an increase of less than 1%. For grades SEO to Grade 6 (6% of workforce) uplifts ranged from 0.75% to 3.25%.

For Senior Civil Servants, 0.2% of the workforce, pay uplifts are governed by the Cabinet Office.