MoD holds back £50m for civil servants' bonus bill
MORE than £50 million has been set aside to pay bonuses to civil servants in the Ministry of Defence (MoD), it emerged last night.
Mandarins will pocket an average of 8,000 each, while more junior grades will take home 775, defence minister Kevan Jones told MPs.
In a parliamentary answer, Mr Jones said the bonuses for 2008-9 were designed to reward those who have made the "greatest contributions".
Of the 1.827 billion pay bill for MoD staff below the Senior Civil Service, 2.7 per cent (49,329,000) was set aside for "non-consolidated performance awards".
At the Senior Civil Service level, of the 18.4 million wages bill 8.6 per cent (1,582,400) was earmarked for bonuses.
In a written answer to shadow treasury minister Mark Hoban, Mr Jones said: "Non-consolidated performance awards are to reward those (who] have made the greatest contribution, and overall costs must be contained within a set percentage of the pay bill."
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