Pay and Conditions

Release date:
29 January 2016

You asked

We request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act.

  1. Name of unions which are signatories to your main collective agreement covering pay and conditions;

  2. Number of employees covered by the agreement;

  3. Lists of grades and current pay rates. Please indicate any agreed equivalence between the grade names used within the list and the following civil service grades:

    1) Administrative Assistant (AA)
    2) Administrative Officer (AO)
    3) Executive Officer (EO)
    4) Higher Executive Officer (HEO)
    5) Senior Executive Officer (SEO)
    6) Grade 7
    7) Grade 6

  4. Copy of your latest pay settlement. If the latest pay settlement is based on the 1% maximum paybill increase set by the Treasury, please provide the following information on how the 1% has been applied:

    1) Have there been any changes to the pay scales?
    2) Are progression payments being paid?
    3) Are performance-related bonuses being paid? If so, what are the arrangements for performance-related bonuses?

We said

In response to your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act, I can respond with the following on behalf of the UK Statistics Authority (including the Office for National Statistics):

  1. The staff of the UK Statistics Authority are represented by PCS, FDA and Prospect.

  2. As at 30 November 2015, the UK Statistics Authority employed 3,730 staff.

  3. Please see the attached pay ranges (41.9 Kb Pdf) for the period August 2013 to July 2014.

  4. Please see the attached, which provides the Pay Bulletin (28.3 Kb Pdf) issued to staff for the settlement covering the period August 2013 to July 2014

In terms of your specific questions:

  • There have been no changes to the pay scales
  • Discussions with the Trade Unions are due to re-commence shortly on removal of contractual pay progression and the implementation of a new pay system
  • A fund for performance related pay exists. A performance related payment of £1020 was made in July 2015 for those staff assessed as outstanding for the period April 2014 to March 2015.

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