Senior civil servants demand PAY RISE to cover extra Brexit work

Senior civil servants have demanded a pay rise due to the additional work required to ship Brexit.

The FDA commerce union stated a decade of pay restraint and employees cuts had left the civil service 'demoralised' at a time it confronted its greatest problem in a technology.

In a unprecedented written submission to the Senior Salaries Overview Board, the FDA stated the problem of Brexit was 'unprecedented in peacetime' and demanded an finish to a 1 per cent cap on pay rises.

Senior civil servants earn round £77,000 on common - however greater than 360 high mandarins earn greater than the Prime Minister.

Senior Conservative Steve Baker informed MailOnline he was 'outraged' on the demand.

FDA chief secretary Dave Penman stated delivering Brexit on high of their different priorities meant senior civil servants wanted a pay rise

The FDA demand, contained in written proof submitted to the senior wage overview physique, comes after a livid row over Sir Ivan Rogers resignation as Britain's EU ambassador.

Sir Ivan's incendiary 1,400 resignation memo angers Brexiteers already fearful in regards to the willingness of civil servants to ship a Brexit they disagree with.

FDA Basic Secretary Dave Penman stated: 'Recent from lowering the dimensions of their departments, the SCS is now tasked with implementing Brexit on high of all the Authorities's present priorities.

'To cite one member, ''…the nation wants a civil service that's optimistic, energised, proud, assured and impressive – what now we have is a senior civil service that's totally dispirited and demotivated.''

'Some have not seen a pay rise in a decade, all have seen their pay reduce in actual phrases by round 1 / 4.'

MORE THAN 360 TOP CIVIL SERVANTS EARN MORE THAN THE PM

The FDA represents 18,000 civil servants who're paid as much as 'band three' - value £208,000.

In whole, greater than 360 civil servants earn greater than the PM.

This contains a number of excessive profile figures incomes greater than the Prime Minister - who's paid £149,440.

Cupboard Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood leads the Civil Service and is paid close to the highest of the size - within the newest information he was recorded as incomes between £195,000 and £199,000.

Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw is one other public servant in the identical pay band as Sir Jeremy - as is Simon Stevens, the boss of NHS England.

Alison Saunders, the Director of Public Prosecutions, is in a pay band working as much as £204,999.

Mr Penman stated ex-Chancellor George Osborne's coverage of holding down pay and reducing the numbers of civil servants had left Whitehall dependant on costly contractors and wage premiums for brand spanking new recruits.

The pay cap was imposed by Mr Osborne as a part of the deficit discount technique in 2010 because the Tories labored to reign in runaway public spending.

And in a message to new Chancellor Philip Hammond, he stated: 'This Chancellor must take a extra sensible place and heed the FDA's name for actual funding within the SCS, not a by no means ending sequence of non permanent fixes dreamt up on the hoof that find yourself being a costing the general public greater than earlier than the pay restraint started.'

Mr Baker informed MailOnline: 'The extra I give it some thought, the extra outraged I grow to be.

'Folks on bizarre wages might be astonished that the FDA thinks they're due a pay rise.'

Senior Tory Andrew Bridgen informed MailOnline: 'The civil servants declare for extra pay is undermined by the very fact I do not keep in mind them demanding a pay reduce each time we ceded energy and accountability from Westminster to Brussels.'

Ukip MP Douglas Carswell stated: 'The mandarins simply do not get it. Taking again management was not about giving them extra money.

'They need to cease treating Brexit as a bonus alternative. We have to implement the desire of the individuals and we should always do it with out the kerfuffle of the previous few days.'

The FDA represents 18,000 senior civil servants, coverage advisers and diplomats, who already get pleasure from common salaries of £77,000.

Cupboard Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood is one in all many senior civil servants who earn greater than the Prime Minister

The white collar union has now written to the Senior Salaries Overview Physique, which assesses high pay, saying the circumstances surrounding the Brexit vote justify an finish to pay restraint.

Senior Conservative MP Steve Baker stated he was 'outraged' on the FDA demand

It requires an finish to the 'flawed' system that limits pay will increase to 10 per cent for officers who win promotion.

And it says the broader one per cent pay cap, which impacts virtually all the public sector requires 'extra flexibility'

Sir Ivan left his put up with a 1,400 phrase memo to his employees that blasted the Authorities's Brexit technique as 'muddled'.

The explosive row prompted requires him to get replaced by a dedicated Brexiteer and triggered a dispute over the willingness of the broader civil service to ship on leaving the EU.

Lord Marland, a former commerce envoy below David Cameron, expressed issues in regards to the Authorities's capacity to conduct powerful negotiations.

He stated: 'My concern is that Whitehall as a complete has actually not received the ability set to ship a extremely hard-nosed negotiation and I believe now we have actually received to up ability in that space to do it.

Former Tory Cupboard minister Theresa Villiers instructed Sir Ivan's departure was unprofessional, telling Sky Information: 'I assumed Sir Ivan's resignation e-mail was, I do not know, rambling, a bit emotionally needy, not one thing you'd anticipate.'

The demand from the FDA comes after a livid row over civil service impartiality broke out this week within the wake of Sir Ivan Rogers explosive resignation as EU ambassador