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11 Dec 2007 : Column 395W—continued
Departmental Conditions of Employment
Tom Brake:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many and what proportion of posts in his Department were recategorised from back office to
frontline posts as classified by the Gershon efficiency review in each year since 2004. [172251]
Derek Twigg: The Ministry of Defence is committed to achieving work force reductions of 10,000 civilians and 5,000 military administrative and support posts by the end of 2007-08. These are net targets and no posts will be reallocated to the frontline as part of them.
Departmental Coordination
Mr. Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 27 November 2007, Official Report, column 309W, on departmental co-ordination, on what date the Foreign and Commonwealth Office consulted his Department about the Bruges speech; and on what date his Department replied. [170435]
Des Browne: I refer my right hon. Friend to my previous answer on 27 November 2007, Official Report, column 309W. The normal consultation between the FCO and the MOD on the Foreign Secretary’s speech to the College of Europe in Bruges on 15 November occurred during the drafting of the speech.
Departmental Official Hospitality
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department spent in near cash terms on entertainment and hospitality as listed in his Department’s resource account code hierarchy in each financial year since 2000-01. [169344]
Derek Twigg: I refer the hon. Member to my answer of 22 October 2007, Official Report, column 11W, to the hon. Member for Upper Bann (David Simpson).
Departmental Pay
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many and what proportion of his Department's staff are employed within each salary band; what the title and role of each position within each salary band is; and for each salary band what the (a) bonus structure, (b) retirement provision, (c) expenses provision, (d) total expenses incurred in each of the last 10 years, (e) average age of employee, (f) number of (i) women and (ii) men and (g) ethnic composition is. [171404]
Derek Twigg: The strength and proportion of civilian personnel employed within each salary band is shown as follows:
The Ministry of Defence employs staff in many hundreds of different roles. I have placed in the Library of the House a complete list of the departmental grades, job families and job codes.
(a) Staff in the non-industrial broader banded groups and industrial skill zones (excluding Trading Funds) are eligible to receive end of year bonus awards based on relative assessment of performance against their peers. In 2007 up to 75 per cent. of non-industrial staff and 100 per cent. of industrial staff could be awarded one of three tiers of bonuses. For the senior civil service, bonuses are used to reward excellent performance during the year and the award is based on a judgment of how well an individual has performed against their peers. Fixed term employees brought into the Department through fair and open competition have contracts which allow for payment of a non-consolidated, performance related bonus, usually of a maximum of 10 per cent. of basic salary. Individual performance is judged by line managers and, for those who are agency chief executives, there is an annual audit of performance against agency key targets. The Agency owner then takes a view of the individual's performance guided by the independent audit agency and the remuneration committee. MOD also operates a special bonus scheme to reward civilian staff for exceptional performance in a specific task or for the achievement of professional qualifications which benefit MOD and the individual. Staff in Trading Funds are subject to separate arrangements which meet their business needs.
(b) All MOD civil servants are eligible to belong to a pension scheme. Most belong to the principal civil service pension scheme (PCSPS)—although there are a number of different schemes under the overall PCSPS umbrella. Some analogue grades—such as lecturers, teachers and medical grades—belong to the pension scheme appropriate to that profession such as the teachers pension scheme, the Scottish teachers pension scheme and the NHS pension scheme.
(c) An MOD employed civil servant is eligible to claim for the reasonable extra expense of travel and subsistence while on official duty. This may mean travel expenses by public transport, official or private vehicle,
the actual bed and breakfast costs where overnight accommodation is required and the reimbursement of actual and reasonable additional meal and refreshment costs while undertaking the official duty.
(d) The total costs directly attributed to civilian staff, for travel and subsistence since 2003-04 (excluding Trading Funds, details for which are not held centrally) are:
| £ million | |
There are additional costs in respect of personnel movements which include car hire, for both military and civilian personnel, which are attributed to one accounting code, for which the civilian cost element can be separately identified only at disproportionate cost.
Travel costs prior to 2003-04 were attributed to a common accounting code for both military and civilian personnel. Costs for civilian personnel could be extracted only at disproportionate cost.
(e) The average age of departmental employees is shown as follows:
| Average age of MoD personnel( 1) as at 1 April 2007 | |
| Average age | |
| 1. Data include permanent and casual personnel employed by the Department, but exclude Royal Fleet Auxiliary personnel and locally engaged civilians for whom age data are not centrally held. (2) The senior civil service was formed in 1996. The totals include about 50 personnel outside the senior civil service but of equivalent grade. Source: DASA (Quad-Service) | |
(f) The number of (i) women and (ii) men employed by the Department is shown as follows:
(g) The ethnic composition of the Department is shown as follows:
| Strength of civilian personnel( 1) by ethnic origin and grade, as at 1 April 2007 | ||||
| Headcount | ||||
| White | Ethnic minorities | Unknown | Total | |
| (1 )Data include permanent and casual personnel employed by the Department, the Royal Fleet Auxiliaries, Trading funds and locally engaged civilians. (2) The senior civil service was formed in 1996. The totals include about 50 personnel outside the senior civil service but of equivalent grade. (3) Value less than 10. (4) Ethnicity data are not available for Royal Fleet Auxiliary personnel and locally engaged civilian personnel. (5) Not available. Note: All numbers are rounded to the nearest 10. Totals and sub-totals have been rounded separately and so may not equal the sum of their rounded parts. Source: DASA (Quad-Service). | ||||
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