§ Mr. MansTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will extend performance-related pay in the civil service.
§ Mr. DorrellThe Government are already doing so. For most civil servants, a limited form of performance-related pay has been in place for some years. However, last year as part of our citizens charter programme the Chancellor made a statement to Parliament in which he announced the Government's intention to negotiate changes to the long-term civil service pay agreements to introduce, among other things, very substantial extensions of the existing performance pay arrangements.
2WSince then, a good deal of progress has been made in negotiating new schemes for virtually all civil servants, which will mean major changes for the ways in which they are paid. Any increase within a pay scale will have to be earned through performance, and better performers will earn greater increases. Pay increments will no longer be automatic. Every civil servant will have an element of his pay each year linked to his performance.
§ Sir Michael NeubertTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many(a) industrial and (b) non-industrial civil servants were employed in (i) April 1979 and (ii) April 1992.
§ Mr. PortilloFigures for 1 April 1992 are not yet available; they will be announced in Parliament within the next few weeks.
There were 166,460 industrial civil servants and 565,815 non-industrial civil servants at 1 April 1979; and 63,168 and 498,735 respectively at 1 October 1991.
§ Mr. Terry DavisTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many civil servants were employed on the most recent date for which this information is available; and how many were employed on the same date in 1982 and 1987.
§ Mr. DorrellThere were 561,903 civil servants at 1 October 1991, the latest published figures; 655,043 at 1 October 1982 and 585,155 at 1 October 1987.