Review
of Police Pay Determination - The Government has announced two
reviews on police pay arrangements.
Mr
Joe Grant, General Secretary, said,
"The
letter below from Sir Clive Booth and the paper from Tony McNulty
MP fully describes the Government's reaction and response to our successful
claim to the Police Arbitration Tribunal on the 2006 pay award.
The Reviews announced will determine the future of police pay and
the SPF and the Staff Side of the PNB will be working over Christmas
and the New Year compiling our initial responses."
Review
of Police Officer Pay Arrangements
Conducted
by Sir Clive Booth
Kingsgate
House
66-74
Victoria Street
London
SW1E 6SW
Tel:
020 7215 8534
E-mail:
mail@policepayreview.org.uk
Web:
policepayreview.org.uk
1 December 2006
J
oe Grant
General
Secretary
Scottish
Police Federation
Dear
Mr Grant
REVIEW
OF POLICE OFFICER PAY DETERMINATION
As
you will be aware, the Minister for Policing, Security and Community
Safety recently announced a review of police pay arrangements. Attached
are the Minister's statement, the terms of reference for the review,
and the factors to which I am directed to have regard.
The
review falls into two parts, and the Minister has asked me to conduct
the first part. I will therefore be considering options for replacing
the current arrangements for determining changes to police officer
pay for 2007, and making recommendations in good time to inform the
2007 pay round.
For
a number of years, changes in police officer pay have been determined
by reference to a survey of movements in the pay of non-manual workers
(originally commissioned by the Office of Manpower Economics and now
by the Police Negotiating Board).
You
may wish to structure your response in your own way, but I should
be particularly grateful if your response could cover your views on
a number of questions set out below.
•
How effective is linkage to the non-manual survey, and what do you
see as the pros and cons of this method?
•
Would a more open-ended negotiation be preferable? If so, please
set out the pros and cons of your preferred method.
•
In addition to the foregoing, are there any other potential methods
I should consider as part of my review? If so, your views on their
relative merits would be helpful.
•
Are there any options you could not accept, and why?
•
Without prejudice to the substantive issues to be addressed in the
second part of the review (following on from the Randall report),
are there any points you would like to make in anticipation of part
two? My remit asks me to frame my conclusions and recommendations
for part one so as to inform part two.
It
would be helpful to have your written comments by Friday 5 January.
If you would also like to follow up your written comments with an
opportunity to put further points to me in person, please let me know
as soon as possible. The timing of my review means I will need to
have any such discussions before the last week of January.
Please
send all written comment to the review's e-mail address: mail@policepayreview.org.uk.
All written comments will be placed on the review's website and accessible
to other stakeholders, unless you request otherwise. (Please note,
incidentally, that the review's mailbox is in the process of being
set up, so will not be active for a few days.)
If
you have any queries in connection with this letter or the review,
please contact Paul Bush in the first instance. He can be contacted
via the review mailbox or on the number at the top of this letter.
Thank
you in anticipation for your help with this review.
Yours
sincerely
SIR
CLIVE BOOTH
ANNEX
E.R
Thursday, 16 November 2006
HOME
OFFICE
Review
of police pay arrangements
The
Minister for Policing, Security and Community Safety (Mr Tony McNulty):
On 6 November the Police Arbitration Tribunal's recommendation on
the police officer 2006 pay award was received. The Home Secretary
responded to this recommendation, agreeing to implement the 3 per
cent pay rise for police officers with effect from 1 September 2006.
The Home Secretary also noted the tribunal's comment that we not only
had “the right but a duty to consider and put forward different factors
and approaches which could be applied in determining police pay” and
said that he would be reviewing the way police pay is determined including
indexation and would announce the terms of reference of the review
shortly
Effective
pay arrangements for police officers are essential for a modern police
service which delivers high standards of community safety and security
to the public. We must move quickly to put police officer pay on a
sustainable basis. We cannot continue with arrangements which produce
pay rises beyond the level which police authorities can afford to
pay without detriment to service delivery. For that reason, we
will establish a review of the way police pay is determined, reporting
early in the New Year and in good time to inform the 2007 pay round.
Following this I will also be asking this review to consider further
changes to the police pay negotiating machinery. In particular, I
am minded to place responsibility for determining chief officer pay
within the remit of the Senior Salaries Review body and the review
I have announced will look at this as part of its consideration of
the options for replacing the current police officer pay determination
arrangements.
I
have asked Sir Clive Booth to undertake the first part of this review
and I am pleased to announce that he has accepted. Sir Clive will
report to me in early 2007 with recommendations on the pay determination
mechanism that we should use for next year. This along with any other
proposals for pay modernisation from the Service or representative
organisations will be considered in the 2007 pay round. The Home Secretary
and I will consider further how the second part of the review looking
at the police negotiating machinery should be take forward including
consideration of John Randall's report on this issue.
The
terms of reference for the review are:
TERMS
OF REFERENCE FOR REVIEW OF POLICE OFFICER PAY DETERMINATION AND OF
POLICE NEGOTIATING MACHINERY
Part 1) To consider the options for replacing the current arrangements
for determining changes to police officer pay for 2007 and make recommendations
on this. The conclusions and recommendations in part 1 to be framed
so as to inform part 2 of the review
Part
2) To review the effectiveness of the negotiating machinery for the
police, including the Police Negotiating Board and the Police Staff
Council, and make recommendations for how police pay and other
conditions of service should be determined. The review must consider
the option of a pay review body for police pay and consider the impact
of any proposal for determining police officer pay, on the negotiating
machinery for police officers
Both
parts of the review must take account of the need for arrangements
to reflect and support the following:
•
The future requirements of the service for the effective and efficient
delivery of policing services, motivation and morale and recruitment
and retention rates, and overall affordability
•
Government policy on public sector pay and the broader economic
and employment context, and consistency with the achievement of
the inflation target of 2 per cent
•
The need to enable wider police workforce developments including
proper reward and recognition arrangements
•
Arrangements for pay determination in other parts of the public
sector
Part
1 should report no later than February 2007, and Part 2 in the autumn
of 2007
