FOI reference: FOI-2026-3499
You asked
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding pay, terms and conditions of service within your organisation following your 2025 pay award.
This includes roles from Administrative Assistant up to and including Grade 6 or equivalent bands, as well as any retained, specialist or industrial grades that broadly align to Civil Service grades where applicable.
Please provide the following information for each grade and band within your organisation:
Pay & Progression
1. Salary ranges. For each grade or band, please provide the minimum and maximum salary or spot rate. Where applicable, please include locational pay ranges or allowances, for example London or other regional pay.
2. Grade structure. Where your organisation operates its own grading structure, please confirm the equivalent Civil Service grade for each band.
3. Pay deal arrangements. Please confirm your organisation’s headline 2025 pay award and the average increase in remuneration costs. Where applicable, please also summarise any changes to terms and conditions associated with the award, and confirm whether an HM Treasury approved pay flexibility case was used to increase remuneration costs above the 2025 Civil Service Pay Remit.
4. Pay progression. Please confirm how staff progress to the maximum pay point within their grade or pay band, for example time served progression, performance-based progression, or discretionary progression.
5. Non-consolidated pay. Please confirm whether your organisation operates a non-consolidated pay pot, including bonuses or reward and recognition schemes. Provide the total value expressed both as a percentage of the pay bill and in monetary terms.
Working Hours & Overtime Arrangements
6. Contracted working hours and breaks. Please confirm the contracted working hours used for hourly pay and National Living Wage calculations, including whether hours are gross or net, whether breaks (i.e. lunch) are paid or unpaid, and any variations by grade or contract.
7. Weekly calculation. Please confirm whether contractual pay calculations are based on 52 weeks, 52.2 weeks, or another arrangement, particularly in the context of National Living Wage calculations.
8. Overtime, TOIL and On Call. Please provide details of overtime arrangements, including payment rates (i.e. Plain Time, Double Time etc), and whether TOIL or on call arrangements apply, including any allowances or grade-based variations.
Leave (including Annual, Family, Sickness and Special leave)
10. Annual leave. Please confirm annual leave entitlements for all grades, including public holidays and any privilege or legacy holidays, and whether entitlements increase with length of service.
11. Flexi Leave. Where a flexible working hours scheme is in place, please confirm whether flexi leave or equivalent time off is permitted, and any limits that apply.
12. Leave year and carry over. Please confirm how annual leave years are determined (i.e. Anniversary of start date, or 1 Apr to 31 Mar etc.) and the maximum leave that may be carried over into or anticipated from a future leave year, including any exceptions.
13. Buying and selling leave. Please confirm whether staff may buy or sell annual leave and, if so, any limits and the rate of pay calculation used when buying/selling leave.
14. Family and special leave. Please provide summary pay details for maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption, fertility and bereavement leave provisions.
15. Sick leave. Please confirm sick pay entitlements including full pay and half pay periods, and whether disability related absence is treated differently for attendance management purposes.
16. Volunteering leave. Please confirm whether volunteering leave is available and the number of days or hours provided.
Please provide the requested information in an electronic format, preferably as a spreadsheet/table or other accessible data format.
We said
Thank you for your request.
Please find our response to each part of your request in the associated download spreadsheet.