Pay award for financial year ending 2019

You asked

Please provide the following information regarding your organisation’s 2018/19 pay award:

1. Name of the unions signatory to your main collective agreement covering pay and conditions.

2. Please state the settlement date of your latest collective pay agreement.

3. Please state the employee groups covered by the pay agreement.

4. Please state the number of employees covered by the agreement.

5. Please provide a copy of your latest pay agreement.

6. Was the latest pay settlement under the remit of the 2018/19 Civil Service pay guidance?

7. Please list the current grades and pay rates together with the previous year’s grades and rates for the below roles or their equivalents:

a] Administrative Assistant (AA)

b] Administrative Officer (AO)

c] Executive Officer (EO)

d] Higher Executive Officer (HEO)

e] Senior Executive Officer (SEO)

f] Grade 6

g] Grade 7

8. Please give details of any individual performance related increases paid in terms of the percentage of the paybill allocated to fund these awards and please state whether these were consolidated or non-consolidated.

9. Please state the overall pay bill increase as a result of the 2018/19 pay settlement (including employer National Insurance and employer pension contributions).

10. Have any other changes been made to terms and conditions as part of the latest pay award?

11. Please provide the name and contact details of the person(s) responsible for overseeing your organisation’s annual pay negotiations.

12. If an agreement has yet to be reached please state the month in which you anticipate 2018/19 pay increase will be paid.

We said

Thank you for your request.

Please see our responses to your questions using the request numbering:

1. The PCS, FDA and Prospect trade unions

2. 1 August 2017

3. All delegated AA-G6 and Interviewer grades

4. 4296 as of 31 July 2018

5. The 2017-18 pay offer letter can be located in the associated downloads.

6. No, the latest settlement is under the 2017/18 pay guidance and is consistent with the answer to question 2.

7. Please see response to question 5.

8. No performance related increases were used to fund awards for delegated AA-G6 or Interviewer grades

9. The pay settlement for 2018/19 is not yet agreed.

10. Please see response to question 9.

11. Craig Fitzek, Head of People Solutions, Office for National Statistics, Government Buildings, Newport, NP10 8XG.

12. Please see response to question 9. We are yet to enter negotiations, but are committed to concluding as quickly as possible.