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1302563

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date	15/03/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average median pay for armed forces personnel will be in 2021-22.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	168831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2021 answer text <p>In November 2020 my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer set out, as part of the 2020 Spending Review, the rationale behind a public sector pay pause this year. As outlined in the Secretary of State for Defence's recent letter to the Chair of the Armed Forces' Pay Review Body, covering Pay Round 2021/22, and as detailed in HM Treasury's earlier Economic Evidence to the Pay Review Bodies 2020/21, the pay pause recognises that public sector pay has been shielded from the pandemic's economic effects. It also serves to protect public sector jobs at this time of crisis whilst ensuring fairness between the public and private sectors. As such, no consideration has been given to the effect of a pay pause on average median pay; the household income of Service personnel; or a comparison with projected rates of inflation.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer grouped question UIN 168832 168833 question first answered 18/03/2021 11:32:45 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1302564

registered interest
date	15/03/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effect of the pay freeze on the household income of armed forces personnel in 2021-22.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	168832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2021 answer text <p>In November 2020 my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer set out, as part of the 2020 Spending Review, the rationale behind a public sector pay pause this year. As outlined in the Secretary of State for Defence's recent letter to the Chair of the Armed Forces' Pay Review Body, covering Pay Round 2021/22, and as detailed in HM Treasury's earlier Economic Evidence to the Pay Review Bodies 2020/21, the pay pause recognises that public sector pay has been shielded from the pandemic's economic effects. It also serves to protect public sector jobs at this time of crisis whilst ensuring fairness between the public and private sectors. As such, no consideration has been given to the effect of a pay pause on average median pay; the household income of Service personnel; or a comparison with projected rates of inflation.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer grouped question UIN 168831 168833 question first answered 18/03/2021 11:32:45 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1302565

registered interest
date	15/03/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what comparative assessment he has made of the armed forces pay increase and the projected rate of inflation in 2021-22.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	168833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2021 answer text <p>In November 2020 my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer set out, as part of the 2020 Spending Review, the rationale behind a public sector pay pause this year. As outlined in the Secretary of State for Defence's recent letter to the Chair of the Armed Forces' Pay Review Body, covering Pay Round 2021/22, and as detailed in HM Treasury's earlier Economic Evidence to the Pay Review Bodies 2020/21, the pay pause recognises that public sector pay has been shielded from the pandemic's economic effects. It also serves to protect public sector jobs at this time of crisis whilst ensuring fairness between the public and private sectors. As such, no consideration has been given to the effect of a pay pause on average median pay; the household income of Service personnel; or a comparison with projected rates of inflation.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer grouped question UIN 168831 168832 question first answered 18/03/2021 11:32:45 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1302566

registered interest
date	15/03/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the ratio of pay between an officer and a non-officer was in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	168834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2021 answer text <p>The requested information can be found it the table below:</p><p><br> <strong>Ratio of median annual salary (average Officer salary relative to average Other Ranks salary) in each year since 2010:</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>Other Ranks (OR) to Officer (OF) Pay Ratio (OR : OF)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2010</p></td><td><p>1:1.77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2011</p></td><td><p>1:1.77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2012</p></td><td><p>1:1.77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2013</p></td><td><p>1:1.77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2014</p></td><td><p>1:1.79</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2015</p></td><td><p>1:1.77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2016</p></td><td><p>1:1.77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2017</p></td><td><p>1:1.73</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2018</p></td><td><p>1:1.70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2019</p></td><td><p>1:1.66</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2020</p></td><td><p>1:1.70</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1. The median average (mid-point of the distribution of personnel within the rank) salaries provided in this response are calculated from the annual salaries for all Regular Officers and Other Ranks as at 1-April each year. This means that the averages are based on salary at that point in the year, not what each Service person will have been paid in total across the year, which may differ, for example due to pay rate changes and promotions. Where there was a promotion within the month of March, the new rank’s rate of pay was used in the calculation.</p><p>2. Median salaries are measured as at 1 April within the financial year. Changes in the medians can therefore reflect both changes in pay rates and changes in the relative distribution of personnel within the rank.</p><p>3. The year-on-year change in average pay should not be interpreted as the growth in pay that an average service person will have experienced. The data purely reflects the change in the median salary over time and it would be unrealistic to assume that an individual's pay would follow this path. Many Service personnel also benefit from an annual increment in addition to any rise recommended by the independent Armed Forces Pay Review Body and, for senior officers, the Senior Salaries Review Body</p><p>4. The pay structure changed significantly with the introduction of Pay 16 which accounts for the large change in ratio in 2017. A simple comparison of medians between years is not possible.</p><p>5. This data uses a different method for calculating the average than the Military Salaries Index (MSI) published in the Quarterly Service Personnel Statistics and are the actual average annual salaries as at April each year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 18/03/2021 11:33:12 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey