Chronic pay issues within the civil service have lowered morale and risk departments not being able to recruit and retain skilled staff. The Cabinet Office acknowledges that there are longstanding issues within the civil service relating to pay and reward. These include a long-term decline in real-terms pay, which has reduced levels of staff satisfaction within the civil service. As departments can set their own pay scales, there are also persistent disparities in how much people at the same ...

Chronic pay issues within the civil service have lowered morale and risk departments not being able to recruit and retain skilled staff. The Cabinet Office acknowledges that there are longstanding issues within the civil service relating to pay and reward. These include a long-term decline in real-terms pay, which has reduced levels of staff satisfaction within the civil service. As departments can set their own pay scales, there are also persistent disparities in how much people at the same grade are paid in different departments. There is also a lack of coherence in how departments use pay to reward civil servants for good performance. We a Type: conclusion | Number: 4 | Response status: accepted Government response: The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Strategy is under development. This will outline the steps the government will take to set out a vision of a more coherent, flexible, and individualised reward framework by 2030 that will enable departments to