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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Trial will link senior civil servants’ pay to performance, says UK minister

Close up of John Glen wearing a suit with a remembrance poppy holding a red folder
At a Reform thinktank event, John Glen, the Cabinet Office minister, said the trial would start by the summer. Photograph: Thomas Krych/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

Senior civil servants are to have their pay linked to their performance in a move criticised as divisive by a leading union.

John Glen, the Cabinet Office minister, announced the trial of performance-related pay for some senior civil servants to come in by the summer, which he said would improve standards.

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