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Government Departments: Incentives

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 27 November 2024UIN 14732

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the (a) total number and (b) cost to the public purse per Department of Government bonuses in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Georgia Gould

Departments have published aggregated annual information on their bonus spend on their own websites since 2011. This data includes information on total bonus spend, the number of civil servants receiving bonuses, and the size of payments.

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