HC Deb 09 February 1999 vol 325 c155W
Dr. David Clark

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what was the average percentage increase in salaries of non-industrial civil servants, excluding members of the senior civil service, in his Department for 1998–99; and to what extent the pay awards were staged. [69517]

Mr. Prescott

The headline pay settlement was 2.55 per cent. on the paybill, and together with some of the additional funds from staff turnover, staff-in-post received performance-related increases averaging 3.7 per cent. On top of this, some staff benefited from a number of restructuring changes which brought total average earnings growth to 5.3 per cent. The increases were not staged but were implemented in 2 phases, both backdated to 1 August 1998.