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MoD officials in bonus bonanza
THE Ministry of Defence has handed out £40m in bonuses to civil servants while thousands of military staff are facing a pay freeze or being made redundant.
The pay awards – including a £85,831 bonus for one senior civil servant – also come at a time when the MoD has been heavily criticised for “continuous poor planning and performance”.
But the MoD defended the payouts, paid since last April, saying they were impossible to cut because of a three-year pay and bonuses deal implemented by the previous government.