The 28th report of the Review Body on Senior Salaries, which makes recommendations about the pay of the senior civil service, senior military personnel and the judiciary, is being published today. Copies are in the Vote Office and the Library of the House. I am grateful to the Chairman and members of the Review Body for their work.Senior Civil ServiceThe Review Body's main recommendations for senior civil servants' pay are:i. changes to senior civil service pay ranges as follows: Pay Band Minimum £ Recruitment & Performance Ceiling £ 1 55,000 116,000 1A 64,000 127,000 2 80,000 160,000 3 98,000 205,000 ii. individual base pay awards to range from 0 to 9 per cent. depending on performance and relative contribution;iii. the minimum non-consolidated bonus payment to rise to £3,000; andiv. the Permanent Secretaries new range to be £137,000 to £273,250.The Review Body endorses the Government's strategy for senior reward including:i. an increase in the senior civil service paybill of 1.75 per cent.; andii. an increase in the non-consolidated bonus pot of 1.2 per cent. of paybill.The Government have decided in the light of what is affordable within expenditure plans and the specific circumstances relating to the senior civil service that the increase in paybill proposed by the Review Body should be implemented in two stages. 1 per cent. will be implemented with effect from 1 April 2006, and the remainder with effect from 1 November 2006. The increase in the non-consolidated bonus pot will be implemented with effect from 1 April 2006.Senior Military PersonnelThe Review Body's main recommendation for the senior military is an increase of 3 per cent. in the incremental pay scales for senior military officers. The Government accept the recommendations for the senior military and they will be implemented in full from 1 April 2006.The JudiciaryThe Review Body's main recommendations for the judiciary are:i. an increase averaging 3.4 per cent. for judicial salaries. The range is from 2 per cent. for some office holders to 6.4 per cent. for the Lord Chief Justice; andii. the repositioning within the judicial salary structure of a small number of posts.The Government have decided in the light of what is affordable within expenditure plans and the specific circumstances relating to the judiciary that the increases proposed by the Review Body should be paid in two stages. All office holders will receive 1 per cent. with effect from 1 April 2006, and the balance of the recommended amount will be paid with effect from 1 November 2006.The recommendations for repositioning certain offices, which arise from a major review of the judicial salary structure, will be implemented.Members of Parliament and MinistersPay increases for Members of Parliament and Ministers are linked automatically to the movement of the mid point of the pay bands for the senior civil service. This therefore results in an increase to their salaries of 2 per cent. However, the Government proposes that this increase should also be paid in two stages—1 per cent. with effect from 1 April 2006, and the remainder with effect from 1 November 2006.Departmental Expenditure LimitsThe cost of the awards for the senior civil service, senior military personnel, the judiciary and Ministers will be met from within existing departmental expenditure limits.

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