The £47 million bonus pot shared by civil servants has been vehemently condemned by families who have lost loved ones fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The performance-related pay in Whitehall has spiralled despite assurances that senior civil servants were willing to show restraint during the recession.

Almost £60 million has been set aside by the Ministry of Defence for civil servants' bonuses this year, figures showed.

MORE than £50 million has been set aside to pay bonuses to civil servants in the Ministry of Defence (MoD), it emerged last night.

OPPOSITION parties yesterday demanded the reform of Whitehall's bonus culture, after research revealed civil servants had shared payouts worth almost £130 million last y

Sometimes it can take years for civil servants to get what they want. But with their index-linked trillion-pound pension promises, they can afford to wait. Civil servants may come and civil servants may go. But the civil service lives for ever. And it has all the time in the world. It knows it will win eventually. That slowly-slowly approach to Government means that nothing is ever rejected once a...

TOP Scottish civil servants are among a list of 172 leading civil servants earning more than £150,000 published yesterday.

The Ministry of Defence has paid out £75 million to civil servants made redundant over the past three months.

Bonuses paid to Northern Ireland civil servants totalling more than £1m are to be investigated by an assembly committee.

A quarter of a million civil and public servants will be starting a 48 hour stoppage on 8 and 9 March over the unilateral changes to their contracts, which would see staff robbed of up to a third of their entitlements and see loyal civil and public servants lose tens of thousands of pounds if they