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Government adopts 'inflexible approach' towards pay bill management says FDA - 17 June 2008
The FDA - the union for senior managers and professionals in the civil service - yesterday gave a welcome to many aspects of the 2008 Senior Salaries Review Body report. The report has made recommendations on pay levels for members of the Senior Civil Service, and on reform of a pay system "seen increasingly to lack credibility".
Dave Penman, FDA head of operations, said:
"We welcome many of the report's findings. However, it is clear the Government is continuing, with its focus on pay bill per head rather than the whole pay bill, to adopt an inflexible approach towards rewarding senior managers in government. The Government's response to the report is more about crude headlines than practical management of the civil service pay bill within a policy framework that would encourage greater efficiency.
"The report is complex, but it recognises that civil service pay levels have been the poor relation in the wider public sector and are 'significantly lower than the private sector'. This announcement comes against the background of today's prediction by the Governor of the Bank of England that inflation (CPI) is expected to rise to above 4% in the second half of the year and remain markedly above the Government's 2% target until well into 2009."
Notes for Editors
1. The FDA is the trade union and professional body representing 18,000 of the UK's senior civil and public servants. Our members include policy advisors, senior managers, tax inspectors, economists, statisticians, accountants, special advisers, government lawyers, diplomats, crown prosecutors and NHS managers.
2. Members in HMRC are represented by the Association of Revenue and Customs (ARC), a section of the FDA.
3. The FDA (formerly the First Division Association) should be referred to simply as "The FDA" and can be described as "the senior public servants' union".
4. For further information contact:
Oliver Rowe, Communications Officer, tel: 020 7401 5588 or 07751 366680.
Dave Penman, FDA head of operations, said:
"We welcome many of the report's findings. However, it is clear the Government is continuing, with its focus on pay bill per head rather than the whole pay bill, to adopt an inflexible approach towards rewarding senior managers in government. The Government's response to the report is more about crude headlines than practical management of the civil service pay bill within a policy framework that would encourage greater efficiency.
"The report is complex, but it recognises that civil service pay levels have been the poor relation in the wider public sector and are 'significantly lower than the private sector'. This announcement comes against the background of today's prediction by the Governor of the Bank of England that inflation (CPI) is expected to rise to above 4% in the second half of the year and remain markedly above the Government's 2% target until well into 2009."
Notes for Editors
1. The FDA is the trade union and professional body representing 18,000 of the UK's senior civil and public servants. Our members include policy advisors, senior managers, tax inspectors, economists, statisticians, accountants, special advisers, government lawyers, diplomats, crown prosecutors and NHS managers.
2. Members in HMRC are represented by the Association of Revenue and Customs (ARC), a section of the FDA.
3. The FDA (formerly the First Division Association) should be referred to simply as "The FDA" and can be described as "the senior public servants' union".
4. For further information contact:
