Civil Servants Paid Huge Bonuses – But NOT At The DSA

This Telegraph article makes interesting reading. It reports on how some senior civil servants have been paid bonuses of up to £100,000.

I love some of the job titles held by those involved:

• Department for International Development
• Training and Development Agency (responsible for improving teaching skills)
• UK Hydrographic Office
• The Ordnance Survey – they make maps
• The Debt Management Office (there’s an oxymoron in there somewhere)
• The Asset Protection Agency (they were set up to handle bank bailouts)
• Ofcom – the media regulator
• The National Offender Management Service’s (NOMS) human relations officer
• The NOMS’ “director of change”

They’re all household names, aren’t they?

It should be pointed out that:

While some Government departments and agencies have felt ready to pay bonuses again, others have continued a self-imposed moratorium on such payments. No senior staff at the Electoral Commission, the Driving Standards Agency, the Office of Rail Regulation or the Independent Police Commission received bonuses in 2011/12.

I’m sure that will upset a lot of people.