Post by Donna Quixote on Mar 31, 2013 9:12:05 GMT -4
Daniel Martin — Daily Mail — March 30, 2013
In 2011/12 £9,072,483 was spent on bonuses and other payments
One official received £12,000, while others got £7,000 plus
This is a 156% increase on the bonuses given in Labour’s last year
Priti Patel asked a series of parliamentary questions to reveal the figures
Bureaucrats in charge of the Government’s controversial green policies have benefited from a multi-million-pound bonus bonanza since the last election.
The total amount of performance-related handouts given to civil servants at the Department for Energy and Climate Change has almost tripled since Labour’s final year in office to £9million.
One official received a bonus of £12,000, while others received payments of more than £7,000, to reward them for their work promoting renewable power such as wind farms.
Last night MPs lambasted the department for handing out so much at a time when consumers’ energy bills were going up as a result of the very green policies they are working on.
Last year, the DECC admitted that its green policies – which will fund a new generation of wind farms and nuclear reactors – will add an average of £95 to gas and electricity bills. Continue reading, here….
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2301368/The-9million-bonus-bonanza-dished-green-energy-bureaucrats.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
In 2011/12 £9,072,483 was spent on bonuses and other payments
One official received £12,000, while others got £7,000 plus
This is a 156% increase on the bonuses given in Labour’s last year
Priti Patel asked a series of parliamentary questions to reveal the figures
Bureaucrats in charge of the Government’s controversial green policies have benefited from a multi-million-pound bonus bonanza since the last election.
The total amount of performance-related handouts given to civil servants at the Department for Energy and Climate Change has almost tripled since Labour’s final year in office to £9million.
One official received a bonus of £12,000, while others received payments of more than £7,000, to reward them for their work promoting renewable power such as wind farms.
Last night MPs lambasted the department for handing out so much at a time when consumers’ energy bills were going up as a result of the very green policies they are working on.
Last year, the DECC admitted that its green policies – which will fund a new generation of wind farms and nuclear reactors – will add an average of £95 to gas and electricity bills. Continue reading, here….
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2301368/The-9million-bonus-bonanza-dished-green-energy-bureaucrats.html?ito=feeds-newsxml