House of Commons - Top Pay in the Public Sector - Public Administration Committee

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Public Administration Committee - Sixth Report
Top Pay in the Public Sector

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 15 December 2009.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary
1 Introduction

Scope of the Inquiry
Conduct of the Inquiry
Structure of this Report

2 Scope of the report

Case study: universities
Conclusion

3 Identifying the problem: levels of pay

How much are public sector executives paid?
Is public sector pay too high?
A Spurious Comparison? Remuneration of the Chief Executive of Ofcom
Benchmarks: Comparisons with the Prime Minister's salary
Benchmarks: Comparisons with the private sector
Recruiting from the market
Pressure to recruit externally
Conclusion on private sector comparisons
Conclusion on benchmarking
Reducing the deficit
Pensions
Pay freeze

4 Performance and reward

Performance-related pay
Respect

5 Transparency

Current situation: central government
Current situation: local government
Proposals for greater transparency
Consideration of pay conditions more widely

6 Identifying the problem: setting pay

Who sets top pay?
Tensions between centralised and devolved systems
Case study: National Health Service management
Should pay be set locally or centrally?
Should a Top Pay Commission cover the private sector?
Better accountability
Upwards pressures on pay setters
Competition for candidates leading to spiralling salaries
Fishing in a small pool of reluctant fish
Use of consultants and headhunters
Strengthening the hand of pay setters
More flexible recruitment policies?
More effective and independent boards
Better human resource management
Making the most of intangible benefits

7 Conclusion
Conclusions and recommendations
Annex A

Central Government policy and practice
Senior Salaries Review Body: senior civil servants among others
Non-departmental public bodies
Public corporations and NHS Foundation Trusts
Other NHS bodies
School headteachers
Senior police officers
Local authority executives
Appointment and remuneration of pay-setters
Exceptions: House of Commons approval

Formal Minutes
Witnesses
List of written evidence
List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 172-II)

Thursday 30 April 2009
Thursday 21 May 2009
Thursday 18 June 2009

WRITTEN EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 172-II)

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Prepared 21 December 2009