1 Horse Guards Road London SW1A 2HQ 
Information Rights Unit  
 Tel: 0207 270 4558  
Fax: 0207 270 4861  
Susan Davis [request-3515-
  
[email address]] 
 www.hm-treasury.gov.uk  
 
[email address]  
 
 
Ref:  IRU/8/580 
CEU: Email/12459/2008  
 
 
 7 November 2008  
Dear Ms Davis 
 
 
 
Freedom of Information Act 2000: public sector pay schemes 
 
Thank you for your enquiry dated 10 October 2008, which we received on 13th 
October 2008.  I am treating your request under the Freedom of Information Act 
2000.  
2.  You asked for: 
“a list of all performance-related pay schemes in the public sector, the categories of 
staff (ie job titles) to which they apply, the approximate numbers of staff in each such 
category, and the total percentage of public sector employees covered by such 
schemes”. 
3.  HM Treasury is responsible for overall public sector pay policy. However this 
responsibility does not extend to the detailed operation of individual pay structures, 
and therefore HM Treasury does not hold the information you have requested. 
Individual departments are responsible for holding workforce information and data on 
organisations related to their departments. Information on each individual workforce 
would therefore need to be sought from the primary department concerned.  
4.  I am sorry that I cannot be more helpful.  However, given your interest in this area 
you may wish to be aware that in November 2007, the Office of Manpower 
Economics, who provide a secretariat function to Pay Review Bodies, published a 
review on performance pay in the public sector that can be found at;  
http://www.ome.uk.com/downloads/Performance%20pay%20in%20the%20Public%2
0Sector.%20A%20review%20of%20the%20issues%20and%20evidence.pdf 
 
If you have any queries about this letter, please contact us. It will be helpful to us if 
you remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications. 
 
 
 
 
Kate Jenkins 
Information Rights Unit 
For HM Treasury 
 
 
 

---

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Your Rights to Complain under the FOI Act 
 
If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request and wish to make a complaint or request 
an review of our decision, you should write within two months of the date of this letter to HM Treasury, Information Rights 
Unit, 2/S2, 1 Horse Guards Road, London SW1A 2HQ. email - public.enquiries@hm -treasury.gov.uk  
 
If you are not content with the outcome your complaint, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a 
decision. Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the 
Treasury. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, 
Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF. 
 
 
2 

---