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Cabinet Office: non-consolidated performance related pay 2024/25
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| PUBLICATION OF NON-CONSOLIDATED PERFORMANCE RELATED PAYMENTS (NCPRP) - Q&A GUIDANCE FOR COMPLETING THE SPREADSHEET | |
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| Why are you doing this exercise? | Not set |
| In the interests of transparency and continued openness across Government it has been decided publication of performance related pay data by Departments should continue. | Not set |
| What is the scope of this exercise? | Not set |
| We are collecting information on payments for the 2024/25 performance year. Do not include payments that relate to other years. Non-consolidated performance related payments include cash and vouchers. | Not set |
| Should my return cover any agencies that we sponsor? | Not set |
| Yes, departments should provide one return that includes individual entries for their own department and each agency that they sponsor. Agencies should liaise with their sponsor departments accordingly. | Not set |
| What about NDPBs? | Not set |
| Executive NDPBs are not covered by this exercise, but you should include Crown NDPBs staffed by civil servants. | Not set |
| Should we include non-consolidated "top-up" payments made to staff who have reached the maximum of their pay range? | Not set |
| No, only include performance related payments. | Not set |
| Should Permanent Secretaries be included? | Not set |
| Yes, they should be included in the SCS section. | Not set |
| What about SCS staff on non-standard performance pay arrangements? | Not set |
| We only require limited data for those SCS staff on non-standard performance pay arrangements. By non-standard we mean where the individual has an end-year performance pay opportunity worth more than £17,500. Please provide numbers of SCS employed on non-standard terms and the highest NCPRP award paid (end-year and any in-year). | Not set |
| What do you mean by paybill? | Not set |
| As defined in the Treasury's Annual Pay Guidance, pay bill is the salary and associated costs of the staff employed by the organisation, including: | Not set |
| • | Staff salaries; |
| • | Allowances; |
| • | Overtime payments; |
| • | Non-consolidated performance pot; |
| • | Employers NIC; |
| • | Employers pensions contributions. |
| For headcount, should we use a consistent date? | Not set |
| Yes, this should be the headcount as at 31 March 2025 and should be consistent with the numbers supplied in monthly workforce management information exercises and other data commissions and statistics. | Not set |
| Should the data be presented in a particular way? | Not set |
| Yes. You should use consistent units (i.e. full un-rounded numbers, not abbreviations e.g. £12,352,456 not £12.3M). | Not set |
| Is there a risk of double counting where departments have been subject to Machinery of Government changes? | Not set |
| Yes, so it is important that those organisations affected should consult one another to ensure that payments to staff are only covered by one return. | Not set |
| What do you mean by median payment? | Not set |
| This is the mid-point value - the "middle number" when payments are sorted from lowest to highest. Zero values should be excluded from median calculations. | Not set |
| We haven’t paid any NCPRP payments relating to the 2024/25 performance year. What do we do? | Not set |
| Please let us know (julia.stagg@cabinetoffice.gov.uk) if you did not pay NCPRP for this performance year. | Not set |
| Are there any additional guidance notes? | Not set |
| Yes - please see the comments in each of the data sheet headings. | Not set |
| Where should the data be published? | Not set |
| The data will be published on departmental websites, linked to the data.gov.uk website. Data should be published as soon as possible, and by 31 December 2025. | Not set |
| I have an existing Freedom of Information request for this (or some of this) information. Can we use the Section 22 (information intended for future publication) exemption? | Not set |
| We believe you can, but you should seek confirmation from your own FOI advisers. | Not set |
| Will we be able to refer to this information to answer future FOI requests and Parliamentary Questions? | Not set |
| Again, we believe you can, subject to your own internal advice (and this will very much depend on the specific information requested). | Not set |
| When is the deadline for publication? | Not set |
| 31 December 2025 - please remember to share a copy of your data with us, so we can calculate the totals for the Civil Service overall. | Not set |
| How do we share the data with GPG? | Not set |
| Either a copy of this completed template, or a link to the published file should be sent to julia.stagg@cabinetoffice.gov.uk by the end of December 2025. | Not set |