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Thank you for your request for information as copied below. You have asked us a series of questions regarding House of Commons (‘HoC') and Parliamentary Digital Service (‘PDS') staff pay bands, which we have sought to answer below.

  1. How many House of Commons and PDS staff are in pay band D1?
  2. How many House of Commons and PDS staff are in pay band C?
  3. How many House of Commons and PDS staff are in pay bands B1 and B2?
  4. How many House of Commons and PDS staff are in pay bands A1 and A2?
  5. What proportion of House of Commons and PDS staff in pay band D1 are at entry point, in step 1, in step 2, in step 3, at the band's maximum, beyond band's maximum?
  6. What proportion of House of Commons and PDS staff in pay band C are at entry point, in step 1, in step 2, in step 3, at the band's maximum, beyond band's maximum?
  7. What proportion of House of Commons and PDS staff in pay bands B1 and B2 are at entry point, in step 1, in step 2, in step 3, at the target rate, in the higher contribution zone, at the band's maximum, beyond band's maximum?
  8. What proportion of House of Commons and PDS staff in pay bands A1 and A2 are at entry step, in step 1, in step 2, in step 3, in step 4 (above Target Rate), at the target rate, in the higher contribution zone, at the band's maximum, beyond the band's maximum?
  9. For this question please aggregate the results, no need to break them down by grade. What proportion of House of Commons and PDS staff that make up the Pay Committee and take part in pay negotiations are at entry step, in step 1, in step 2, in step 3, at the target rate, in the higher contribution zone, at the band's maximum, beyond the band's maximum.

 

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  1. How many House of Commons and PDS staff are in pay band D1?
    This information is held by the House of Commons. The total number of HoC and PDS employees in pay band D1 is 331.
  2. How many House of Commons and PDS staff are in pay band C?
    This information is held by the House of Commons. The total number of HoC and PDS employees in pay band C is 371.
  3. How many House of Commons and PDS staff are in pay bands B1 and B2?
    This information is held by the House of Commons. The total number of HoC and PDS employees in pay band B1 is 372. The total number of employees in pay band B2 is 408.
  4. How many House of Commons and PDS staff are in pay bands A1 and A2?
    This information is held by the House of Commons. The total number of HoC and PDS employees in pay band A1 is 118. The total number of employees in pay band A2 is 437.
  5. What proportion of House of Commons and PDS staff in pay band D1 are at entry point, in step 1, in step 2, in step 3, at the band's maximum, beyond band's maximum?
    This information is held by the House of Commons. The proportion of employees in each pay band category Table 1.
  6. What proportion of House of Commons and PDS staff in pay band C are at entry point, in step 1, in step 2, in step 3, at the band's maximum, beyond band's maximum?
    This information is held by the House of Commons. The proportion of employees in each pay band category Table 2.
  7. What proportion of House of Commons and PDS staff in pay bands B1 and B2 are at entry point, in step 1, in step 2, in step 3, at the target rate, in the higher contribution zone, at the band's maximum, beyond band's maximum?
    This information is held by the House of Commons. The proportion of employees in each pay band category Table 3.
  8. What proportion of House of Commons and PDS staff in pay bands A1 and A2 are at entry step, in step 1, in step 2, in step 3, in step 4 (above Target Rate), at the target rate, in the higher contribution zone, at the band's maximum, beyond the band's maximum?
    This information is held by the House of Commons. The proportion of employees in each pay band category Table 4.
  9. For this question please aggregate the results, no need to break them down by grade. What proportion of House of Commons and PDS staff that make up the Pay Committee and take part in pay negotiations are at entry step, in step 1, in step 2, in step 3, at the target rate, in the higher contribution zone, at the band's maximum, beyond the band's maximum
    We have interpreted the phrase ‘Pay Committee' to mean the Senior Renumeration Committee, membership of which comprises of the Commons Executive Board (CEB) and is chaired by an External appointee.
    This information is held by the House of Commons.
    Details of the membership of CEB can be found on our parliamentary webpages.  
    For the purposes of openness and transparency, we publish the salaries of the CEB, in pay bands of £5,000, on our website.  This is carried out annually, and can be accessed on our parliamentary pages. It is also published in our Annual Accounts.
    As the information you request is reasonably accessible to you otherwise than under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), your request is refused. In refusing your request the House is applying the exemption set out in section 21 (1) and (2) (a) of the FOIA. This is an absolute exemption and the public interest test does not apply.
    The most recent information, for the financial year 2018/19 is due to be published in the autumn. Until the information is published it is exempt from the provisions of section 1(1)(b) of the FOI Act (the right of access to the information) by virtue of the exemption set out in section 22 (1) of the same Act (the exemption for information held by the public authority with a view to its publication at some future date (whether determined or not)). While there is a public interest in the publication of information relating to [insert details], we have concluded that this is outweighed by both the public interest in the routine disclosure of this information and the achievement of this publication by the focusing of the significant resources required to process the data in the manner required while achieving best value for money.