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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Taxpayers Foot £132 Million Bill For Civil Servants With No Job To Do

The figures have emerged at the start of a year in which economists suggest one million private sector jobs could be lost.
Using a series of Parliamentary Questions, the Conservatives uncovered what they say is an "invisible army of Whitehall civil servants".
In total, 15 departments said they employed 4,634 staff - one in 100 of all civil servants - without an official job.
Calculated on the average staff cost of a civil servant, the staff would cost £132million to employ.
More than half of the staff were at HM Revenue & Customs which is employing 2,874 "pre-surplus staff". This is defined as staff "whose post or work is no longer being carried out".
The answers from other departments show that staff with nothing to do are described as members of "People Action Teams", "Redeployment Pool", "Priority Movers", "Corporate Pool" or "Career Transition Centre"

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