Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many bonuses were awarded to senior civil servants working at his Department and its agencies in each of the last six years; and what the total cost of those bonuses was.

As part of the Government’s transparency agenda, departments publish annual information on the number of awards and spend on end-year and in-year Non-Consolidated Performance Related Pay. This information can be found on the department’s website and on data.gov.uk: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dcms-non-consolidated-performance-related-payments-for-the-appraisal-year-2015-to-2016.

Information for future years will be published in the usual way.