HOME OFFICE STAFF GET £14.4M BONUSES ...DESPITE FAILINGS

Suella team gets twice the reward as fury rages on asylum seeker backlog

- ANDY BUCKWELL

CIVIL servants at the Home Office have been given £14.5million in bonuses, despite a string of failings.

The payments handed out in 2022-23 to staff working for Home Secretary Suella Braverman are more than double the £6.6m given out the year before.

In total, Government civil servants have been rewarded with bonuses of more than £40m, paid to them in vouchers to spend in High Street stores.

That is up £10m in a year but the 33% rise across all departments is dwarfed by the 119% Home Office surge.

And the increase is likely to raise eyebrows at a time when the department is in the public eye for its failures.