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**Hugh** · 27-12-2012, 15:18

From the Mail on the same story...

Quote:

The parliamentary figures show that the number of Treasury staff on more than £80,000 also increased – from 47 before the election to 75 last year.

A spokesman said the huge rise was the result of the department’s absorption of an organisation called Infrastructure UK.

This consists of former business leaders who advise the government on Britain’s long-term infrastructure priorities and bring in private sector investment.

The Government Equalities Office, which is led by Culture Secretary Maria Miller, has increased the number of civil servants on six figures from one in 2009/10 to two in 2012/13
As former business leaders they demand commercial pay rates.

Before the election, these people’s salaries were only half-funded by the Treasury. Now they are fully funded by the taxpayer.

The spokesman said that without Infrastructure UK, the numbers of six-figure staff would have fallen slightly.

Yet even since the absorption, the numbers on more than £100,000 rose in the following year, from 37 to 39.

He also pointed out that the total headcount in the department had fallen from 1,386 before the election to 1,187 in 2011/12.

And the amount spent on salaries had fallen from £70.6million to £59.3million.

At the Home Office, the number of staff on six figures has increased by a half from 24 to 36.

The Department for Energy and Climate Change, headed by the Lib Dems’ Ed Davey, now has 15 staff on £100,000 or more – up from 10 before the election.

And the Government Equalities Office, which is led by Culture Secretary Maria Miller, has increased the number of civil servants on six figures from one in 2009/10 to two in 2012/13.

Other departments such as the Cabinet Office have seen increases over the past year, although the totals are still lower than when Labour were in power.

So, they have less people overall, and are spending less on salaries - strange how that wasn't the headline...