Civil servants’ work to be monitored

Civil servants’ performance is to be subjected to greater scrutiny to establish whether they have earned their annual salary increment.

The Government had come under intense criticism after it had emerged civil servants only had to achieve two marks out of five — a grade which the Government admitted meant the civil servant was under-performing — in order to move up the salary scale.

Only 30 of the total 30,000 were not awarded an increment last year as they did not get enough points.