£3.6m 特別手当 at 'unfit for 目的' Home Office

By JAMES SLACK

Last updated at 23:55 21 May 2007


More than 5,000 civil servants at the Home Office 株d £3.6million in 特別手当 支払い(額)s last year, にもかかわらず the department 直面するing a 一連の スキャンダルs.

The payouts were yesterday 非難するd as a reward for 失敗 by 保守的な MPs.

The awards were paid during the course of 2006, at a time when Home 長官 John Reid 宣言するd the department was "not fit for 目的".

His comments referred to the more than 1,000 foreign 犯罪のs who were 解放(する)d from 刑務所,拘置所 without 存在 considered for 国外追放.

公式の/役人s also failed to 警報 大臣s to the fact that 有罪の判決s given to Britons overseas had not been placed on the Police 国家の Computer.

にもかかわらず this "集団の/共同の 失敗", 上級の 蜜柑s were still able to find 5,014 公式の/役人s considered worthy of a 特別手当. They 代表する one in five staff.

The 本体,大部分/ばら積みの were lower 最高位の civil servants, who received an 普通の/平均(する) of more than £520 each.

But around 160 上級の civil servants also won 特別手当s. One boss got £15,000.

The total 法案 of £3,612,916 is 75 per cent higher than in 2002, when the department was run by then Home 長官 David Blunkett.

影をつくる/尾行する Home 長官 David Davis said: "It is bad enough that the Home Office is failing on all 前線s with serious 関わりあい/含蓄s for public safety.

"It is an 侮辱 that such 失敗 has been rewarded in such a way."

The Home Office said the remuneration of 上級の civil servants "is 始める,決める by the 総理大臣 に引き続いて 独立した・無所属 advice from the 上級の Salaries Review 団体/死体".

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