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.
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.