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February 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Daniel Martin, Whitehall Correspondent
Last updated at 7:32 AM on 16th February 2012
Payout: Jeremy Beeton
Civil servants are scooping £2million in bonuses each month, despite a pledge by ministers to stamp down on spending.
Whitehall bureaucrats have been handed sums of up to £187,500 – more than the Prime Minister earns in a year – on top of their annual salaries.
Official figures show that in four departments, the cost of performance-related awards to civil servants has actually increased since Labour’s final year in power.
At the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the bonus bill went up 21 per cent between 2009/10 and 2010/11, while former energy secretary Chris Huhne, who recently quit the Cabinet, saw the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s bill rise by 12 per cent during his first year in charge.
The Department for Education shelled out £1.9million in both 2009/10 and 2010/11, but the proportion of the pay bill which went towards bonuses increased between the two years. The Scotland Office also saw its bill increase – up to £3,670.
The astonishing payments, which total £22.8million during the Coalition’s first year, help explain why ministers have demanded a review of public sector bonuses.
The full total will be even higher because three departments have not provided details.
Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, told ministries that bonuses should only be for ‘genuine excellence’ and not ‘run-of-the-mill performance’.
The highest bonus bill was racked up by the Foreign Office, which handed out £6.7million during 2010/11, while the largest individual award was given by the DCMS.
Jeremy Beeton, director general of the Government Olympic Executive, which is linked to the DCMS, received £187,500 – more than David Cameron’s salary. Finance director David Goldstone benefited from a bonus of £130,000. Mr Beeton, who was hired in 2007 from U.S. construction firm Bechtel, earns a salary of around £220,000 – meaning he is pocketing more than £400,000 a year.
Cashing in: Whitehall bureaucrats have seen their bonuses increase since Labour was in power
The agency is responsible for overseeing the building, financing, legacy and staging of the Games.
Bonuses are linked to a complicated series of targets which can range from cost savings to hitting diversity quotas. Details of the huge payments emerged following a series of Parliamentary questions by backbench Tory MP Priti Patel.
The departments of Transport, Communities and Local Government, and Work and Pensions did not reply to the questions.
Last night Jon Trickett, Labour’s Cabinet Office spokesman, said: ‘Awards should be based on a transparent and fair system. There is no place within the civil service for the excessive bonus culture.’
A spokesman for the DCMS said: ‘Jeremy Beeton’s annual bonus is linked to achievement of specific targets. David Goldstone was recruited on a similar basis.’
A Cabinet Office spokesman said: ‘The Government has reduced the number of senior civil servants eligible for bonuses from the top performing two thirds to the top 25 per cent.
‘This has helped reduce the spend on bonuses last year by £15million. This means we can still retain an element of performance-related pay for the very best performers.’
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I disagree with the argument that these people are the best so deserve bonuses. Doctors are far more qualified and work longer hours than civil servants but get no bonus. Army officers are similarly qualified, but work longer hours in extreme circumstances for no bonus. These people are not the best, they are just the ones who control budgets and are thus able to skim some off for themselves and their colleagues. They are 9 to 5 pen pushers and desk jockeys getting fat from the talent and hard work of others.
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pigs,, troughs…come to mind.
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Workers in the private sector only get their salary and can be sacked for incompetance -why shouds public sector workers get bonuses for failure and no chance of being sacked!!
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THE CHANCELLOR IS DOING A FINE JOB LOOKING AFTER HIS OWN!
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I wish I could see how pen pushers get a bonus, the only way bonus’s should be awarded is to those who at the end of the day have produced goods.
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Civil servants should get salaries and never be given bonuses other than for actions that are really noteworthy
Why is this Government not getting to gruips with costs and why is it not implementing real savings such as getting rid of most of the expensive quangos that it promised to do?
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It’s not as if this is news anymore. We are becoming inured to these stories of waste, mismanagement and being paid ‘bonuses’ just for doing their jobs, and not too well, either judging by the state of the country.
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I am 64 and earned £4,000 last year , and have been told i will have legal action taken against me for late payment of council tax
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A small number of public servants are hard working and dedicated, unfortunately there is an overwhelming majority who,in my experience,are poorly qualified jobsworths and workshy parasites.
Bonuses are paid not for doing your job but doing more than your job.
No one paid from the public purse should be paid bonuses,the whole concept is OBCENE..
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They get paid well – in fact very well with bonuses we can only dream of. So why bonuses? Because they work for the Government and all on the gravy train. Please remember all this come next election and think about where to put the cross. Liebour brought about the biggest spending spree at our expense and this lot are just carrying it on. What this money could do for old people. Still business as usual – quangos, bonuses, perks, etc etc etc…. And so it goes on.
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