Have written about why this is so good. Yes, there's miles more that's needed, but before you dunk on this it's worth getting to grips with the bind civil servants are in at the moment, where your choices are: move dept, move job, or see your pay stagnate. This is a route out, and that is good.
Performance-related pay progression for senior officials is a good, if limited, move.
Earlier this year, I set out plans to modernise the civil service.
Now, for the first time ever (!), pay rises for senior civil servants will be linked to performance - including the delivery of our political priorities.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
The Government has today, 21 May, published its response to the recommendations of the independent Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) on pay for the Senior Civil Service (SCS) for 2026-27.
