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<p>The information requested is detailed in the following tables.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td
colspan="4"><p><strong>Serious Fraud Office: Pay increase</strong><sup>1</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>Above 1%</p></td><td><p>At 1%</p></td><td><p>Less than 1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>141</p></td><td><p>146</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>291</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>300</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>59</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em><sup>1</sup></em><em>
Based on staff in post as at 31 August in each of the past three years.</em></p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Attorney General’s Office (AGO)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>Above 1%</p></td><td><p>At 1%</p></td><td><p>Less than 1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Government Legal Department (GLD)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>Above 1%</p></td><td><p>At 1%</p></td><td><p>Less than 1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>973</p></td><td><p>96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>848</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>578</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>834</p></td><td><p>105</p></td><td><p>1006</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service
Inspectorate (HMCPSI)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Above 1%</p></td><td><p>At
1%</p></td><td><p>Less than 1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Crown Prosecution
Service (CPS) </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>More than 1%</p></td><td><p>At
1%</p></td><td><p>Less than 1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>1,038</p></td><td><p>3,743</p></td><td><p>1,881</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>1,075</p></td><td><p>3,445</p></td><td><p>1,760</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>675</p></td><td><p>3,058</p></td><td><p>2,182</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>In relation to the CPS:</p><ul><li><p>In each of the three years the average
pay awards were limited to up to 1% in line with the government’s framework from which
all departments have set their pay arrangements.</p></li></ul><p>In relation to the
GLD, AGO and HMCPSI:</p><ul><li><p>The pay award in 2014 provided all staff with a
1% pay award although a number received part of this as a non-consolidated sum because
they were on or near their grade maximum and a small number had a retained contractual
entitlement to a specific pay award of more than 1% from a previous department.</p></li><li><p>The
2015 and 2016 pay awards provided staff with a cash sum based on 1% of the average
salary for their grade. The outcome provided an award of greater than 1% for those
who were at the lower end of their pay range and less than 1% for those at the upper
end.</p></li><li><p>GLD also took the opportunity in 2016 to review and update the
pay structure for Legal Trainees and Legal Officers, resulting in a higher than 1%
award in that year as individual’s moved to the new structure (30 people benefitted
in this way).</p></li></ul><p>In relation to the SFO:</p><ul><li><p>For the 2014 pay
award the SFO paid all eligible staff an award of either £350 or 1%. Ineligible staff
were those already earning in excess of their pay-band maximum, those staff who were
deemed as not effective and those staff who had joined the SFO after 31 January 2014.</p></li><li><p>In
2015, the SFO sought and obtained Treasury and AGO approval to convert 0.5% of the
accrued bonus pot to fund increases to base pay for the more junior digital forensic
and investigator roles. This was to help with retention and recruitment of staff in
those roles which had been identified as a business need. At the same time the SFO
introduced a performance pay matrix which allowed for strong performers near to the
bottom of their pay-band to receive a larger increase than those in the middle and
top of the band. Eligibility criteria were the same as for 2014 – with the cut-off
date for new staff being 31 January 2015.</p></li><li><p>In April 2016 the SFO introduced
a new pay model, also approved by Treasury and the Attorney General, which created
separate specialist pay-bands for corporate, operational and digital staff to again
further improve the recruitment/retention position with key operational roles. This
allowed for a further significant base pay increases for staff in digital and investigative
roles at all grades. The annual pay award in August 2016 followed the same approach
as for 2015.</p></li></ul>
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