§ Mr. ThurnhamTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement about incentive schemes for civil servants.
§ Mr. BrookeWe have introduced a number of schemes in the Civil Service for encouraging and rewarding high performance.
At senior levels, additional discretionary awards can be paid to grade 2 and 3 staff for sustained high performance. Below this, new flexible pay arrangements which include provision for performance related pay are in place for grades 5–7, professional and scientific grades and staff in the Inland Revenue.
Performance pay is also a feature of the provisional agreements that the Treasury has recently reached with the National Union of Civil and Public Servants and the Civil and Public Services Association. If those provisional agreements are endorsed, nearly all the non-industrial Civil Service will be covered by new performance-related pay schemes.