Senior Civil Servants Make £1m in Bonuses

A total of 105 payouts were given to the Cabinet Office employees at a cost of £972,500 - an average bonus of almost £9,300 each and a rise of £77,500 from the previous year.
The news has angered critics at a time when up to 8,300 private sector jobs are under threat, with many large firms preparing to announce redundancies over the course of the next year.
A spokesman for the TaxPayers' Alliance said: "It defies belief that while the economy falters and tens of thousands of people in the private sector have been losing their jobs, the big bonus culture continues as normal in Whitehall."
It also comes as Lord Jones, the former Trade Minister, said he was "amazed" by how many civil servants he met during his time in government "who frankly deserved the sack", adding that "the job could be done with half as many".
The Tories earlier this month claimed taxpayers were footing a bill of more than £100m for the salaries of nearly 5,000 bureaucrats in "non-jobs".

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