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FOI21/22-062 - Information pertaining to staff pay following the 2020 Pay Award

Published 27 October 2021

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Our ref: FOI21/22-062

Date: 17/08/2021

Dear

Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your Email of 31st July 2021 in which you requested from the Insolvency Service information pertaining to staff pay following the 2020 Pay Award.

Your request has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).

I can confirm the agency holds the information that you have requested, and I have provided answers to your questions below:

You asked:

Please could you supply the settlement date upon which your organisation’s pay remit year commences

For each grade below the Senior Civil Service (SCS) in your organisation, please could you supply

  1. The name by which the grade is known in your organisation.
  2. The broad equivalent civil service grade (Administrative Assistant (AA), Administrative Officer (AO), Executive Officer (EO), Higher Executive Officer (HEO), Senior Executive Officer (SEO), Grade 7, Grade 6). This may be multiple if grades have been merged.
  3. A brief description of the grade and how it differs from broadly equivalent grades. (e.g. National, London, Fast stream, Specialist requiring particular qualifications).
  4. The amount and area of any regional pay allowances that are paid on top of basic pay for this grade.
  5. The pay range minimum following the 2020 pay award. If the award is still pending, please supply the current minimum and the year to which this relates.
  6. The pay range maximum following the 2020 pay award. This may be the same as the minimum. If the award is still pending, please supply the current maximum and the year to which this relates.
  7. While progression is subject to pay negotiations each year and is paused for 2021, if the 2020 pay award was repeated, how many years it would take to go from minimum to maximum. Please indicate if the maximum is not achievable if the 2020 progression arrangements were repeated.

Our Response:

The Insolvency service pay remit commences from the 1st of August each year.

  1. in the Insolvency Service the naming conventions of grades differs to the wider civil service, the attached document shows the civil service grade and Insolvency Service equivalent grade along with the minima and maxima paid to these grades.
  2. Please see the attached document referred to in answer A
  3. Equivalent Civil Service grades are listed on the attached document; however, the Insolvency Service has a unique L pay grade which is for trainee and qualified examiners which is as follows:
  • L1 Trainee and L1 Qualified Examiner = EO
  • L2 Trainee and L2 Qualified Examiner = HEO
  • L3 Trainee and L3 Qualified Examiner = HEO
  • L4 Qualified Examiner = SEO
  1. No regional pay allowances (London Weighting for example) are paid on top of basic pay in the Insolvency Service.
  2. Please see the attached document referred to in answer A
  3. Please see the attached document referred to in answer A
  4. The Insolvency Service does not have a pay progression system; therefore it is not possible to calculate using the 2020 pay award as no progression was applied. In addition, 2020 pay award was an individually calculated and applied pay award, which will remain the stance as and when the pay pause is removed.

If you are not satisfied with the response we have provided you and would like us to reconsider our decision by way of an internal review (IR), please contact our Information Rights Team at foi@insolvency.gov.uk or by post at:

Information Rights Team
The Insolvency Service
3rd Floor
Cannon House
18 Priory Queensway
Birmingham
B4 6FD
United Kingdom

You also have the right to contact the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) if you wish for them to investigate any complaint you may have in regards to our handling of your request. However, please note that the ICO is likely to expect an IR to have been completed in the first instance.

Kind regards

P&C HR Pay

The Insolvency Service

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