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DeliciousMoD spent £52m on civilian bonuses
Tuesday, November 10, 2009Civil servants in the Ministry of Defence received over £52m in bonus payments in the financial year 2008/09, and the department has already paid out more than £47m this year.
In 2008/09, £52,984,656 was paid out to civilian staff in the ministry. In the current financial year up to 31 October, £47,283,853 has been paid out. These figures are more than double the £24,866,213 paid out in 2003/04.
The figures were revealed by minister for veterans Kevan Jones in answer to a Commons question from Conservative shadow defence secretary Dr Liam Fox.
"At a time when the department is reeling from the Nimrod report and Gray report, many of those in the Armed Forces will be aghast that bonuses are being paid on the basis of outstanding performance," Fox told Defencemanagement.com.
"This will only increase the view that the armed forces and the MoD administration are hugely out of balance."
HAVE YOUR SAY
Er what for??
john - UK
Out of the £52 Million my years bonus was £400 before tax, and yes we get taxed on any bonus we recieve. The media must stop trying to turn the public against the average Civil Servant, we are low paid but you make out that we all live in castles with huge salaries and bonuses. This is not true, we are struggling to pay our bills just like almost everyone else (except MP's of course). Media of Britain - Leave us alone, we are not the enemy, we are not the problem.
Nathan, defender of the little guy! - Brum, England, MOD.
Wow, there's another easy piece of sensationalism for the media! I am a civil servant, who like Nathan, received a bonus of just £400 before tax. I am also an ex-serviceman who served my country for over 24 years. I wish that the media would stop helping the MP's in their 'tit-for-tat' playground games of trying to make out that everybody who works for the MoD is onboard the 'gravy train'. We are ordinary people, who are trying to make ends meet, just like everbody else.
Chris Holmes - Lincoln, England, MoD
Yet another example of double standards. Another one being, (that some within MoD Policy Pensions deny), is that MoD Civil Servants upon re-employment are allowed to re-join their old very attractive Premium pension scheme. Meanwhile enlisted Reservists (those with former pensionable regular service under AFPS75) cannot continue in AFPS75 upon being mobilisd for Afghanistan. They have to join RFPS05 that pays peanuts in comparison as they are now classed as new entrants.
Mark G. Iles - UK Ex Regular Army
Naturally the press will distort this story to suit its own grubby, political agenda. In other words it will ignore the fact that most MOD employees work for extremely modest salaries.
just over twelve years ago I commenced employment with the MOD at a salary of under £7K. This year due to sheer hard work and saving taxpayers' money I received a bonus after tax of £500.00 to add to my "enormous, fat cat" salary of just over £17.5K per annum. How refreshing it would be if The Sun or the Mail ran a piece about the reality of what most civil servants have to live on.
El Goodo - West Mids, UK, MOD
I also got the magical £400 before tax.In this climate is it not time the MOD realised that we at the grass roots NEVER wanted this bonus system, and the controversy it attracts, but the media also are not informed that in fact it is part of our pay structure, not just bonuses for bonuses sake.
Janet - Catterick, England,MOD
Having worked for the mod as an engineer on vc10 majors, we had to justify our overtime on every aircraft,because of dwindling cost budgets,we lost considerable good engineers because of poor wages.yet mod paper shufflers are given bonuses goes beyond comprehension.they need to get their prioritys and act sorted out.as this is not a good use of funds.
DEREK FREEMAN - NEWPORT,GWENT,UK