Severance and redundancy packages (FOI)

​Request

Further to the recently requested information on severance and redundancy packages.

It is stated the highest pay out to a single individual during the period was £222,537. How is this squared with the information from the States Comptroller in 2012 that the former States Chief Officer Bill Ogley was paid £546,337 in 2011?

Response

Both figures are correct. 

The highest pay out to someone who successfully applied for severance or redundancy was as specified - £222,537.

The payment to the former States Chief Officer was a contractual payment to which he was entitled and does not relate to severance or redundancy 

Further information about the severance and redundancy programme currently being run as part of the public sector reform programme is available on the following links.

About public sector reform

Voluntary redundancy, severance and early retirement schemes for States employees