Department for Work and Pensions: Pay

(asked on 17th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department spent on performance-related awards for officials in (a) 2014, (b) 2015, (c) 2016, (d) 2017, (e) 2018 and (f) January 2019 to June 2019.


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Will Quince
This question was answered on 20th June 2019

The periods covered are pay remit years which run from July to June, figures up to 2017/18 are actual and 2018/19 is forecast as this reporting year will not conclude until end June 2019.

The figures provided include expenditure on all DWP performance related awards including; End of year performance awards to delegated grades, SCS Performance Related Payments, Recognition scheme.

2013/14 - £49.635,000, Average Payment by headcount - £505

2014/15 - £46,277,000, Average Payment by headcount - £513

2015/16 - £43,056,000, Average Payment by headcount - £510

2016/17 - £39,435,000, Average Payment by headcount - £473

2017/18 - £42,341,000, Average Payment by headcount - £509

2018/19 - £22,854,000 – Payments will be agreed as part of 2019 pay negotiations pending.

We have over 82,000 employees in DWP, approximately 94% are in our most junior grades receiving an annual salary between £18,745 for an AA Grade and £37,262 for an HEO Grade based in Inner London.

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