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The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated July 2009:"As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question, concerning how many civil servants in (a) departments, (b) executive agencies and (c) non-departmental public bodies receive an annual salary of over £150,000. (287257)""The Office for National Statistics (ONS) collects the annual salaries of civil servants, as part of the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey (ACSES).""The requested data are attached at Annex A."<Table width="100%" summary="" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" border="0"><thead><tr><th>Annex A: Number of individual civil servants paid more than £150,000 in departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies (NDPB)¹ permanent employees</th></tr></thead><TR><TD></TD><TD>Headcount</TD></TR><TR><TD>31 March 2008</TD><TD>Greater than £150,000</TD></TR><TR><TD>Departments²</TD><TD>80</TD></TR><TR><TD>Executive agencies</TD><TD>10</TD></TR><TR><TD>Non-departmental public bodies</TD><TD>—</TD></TR><tfoot><TR><td>¹ Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten and numbers less than five are represented by "—".</td></TR><TR><td>² Includes ministerial and non-ministerial Departments.</td></TR><TR><td>Source:</td></TR><TR><td>Annual Civil Service Employment Survey (ACSES).</td></TR></tfoot></Table> |