Performance Appraisal

Attorney General written question – answered at on 28 October 2014.

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Photo of John Healey John Healey Labour, Wentworth and Dearne

To ask the Attorney General, how many officials in the Law Officers' Departments completed the Civil Service Employment Policy Performance Management System in 2013-14; how many and what proportion of those officials received the (a) exceeded, (b) met and (c) must improve performance mark; and how many and what proportion (i) did and (ii) did not qualify for a bonus under that process.

Photo of Robert Buckland Robert Buckland The Solicitor-General

The following tables contain information on performance marking and any performance awards for officials in the Law Officers’ Departments in the 2013-14 reporting year.

All of the Law Officers’ departments have a non-consolidated performance award pot funded according to HM Treasury guidance. The amount is set as part of departmental pay remits agreed by the Attorney General.

Crown Prosecution Service

Rating

Headcount

%

Exceeded

737

12.9%

Achieved (Met)

4900

85.5%

Not Achieved

(Must Improve)

94

1.6%

(1) Only 15 (0.3%) Crown Prosecution Service officials qualified for a performance bonus in 2013/14. These were Senior Civil Servant grades or equivalent and their performance bonus was managed in line with the Cabinet Office Performance Management arrangements for the Senior Civil Service.

(2) Of those completing the CSEP Performance Management Process, 5716 officials (99.7%) did not qualify for a performance bonus.

(3) The source data has been extracted from the CPS e-PDR database using the base data report of 29/09/14. Consequent change to data input may mean that this data will change at some point in the future.

Treasury Solicitor’s Department (TSol)*

Rating

Headcount

%

Exceeded

352

27.7%

Achieved (Met)

862

67.9%

Not Achieved

(Must Improve)

55

4.3%

* TSol data also covers officials employed by the Attorney General’s Office and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate. This includes the DWP/DH team who merged with TSol on the 1st April 2014.

Awarded performance award in accordance with the TSol pay settlement*

Received award

Did not receive award

TSol

317

831

Proportion

27.6%

72.4%

* This data does not include the DWP/DH legal team.

Awarded performance award in accordance with reserved rights to the DWP/DH pay settlement*

Ex DWP/DH legal team

117

4

Proportion of team

96.7%

3.3%

*The DWP/DH legal team operated under their previous appraisal policy in 2013-14. From 2014-15 these staff will be covered by the standard TSol performance system.

Serious Fraud Office

Rating

Headcount

%

Outstanding (Exceeded)

65

23.64%

Effective (Met)

202

73.45%

Unsatisfactory (Must Improve)

8

2.91%

(1) All staff rated as Outstanding or Effective qualified for a performance award. The amount available to the SFO for performance awards was split accordingly.

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