Figures released by the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee show a fifth took home a bonus of between £4,500 and £5,000 despite criticism over border controls and the backlog of asylum-seekers.
Meanwhile, one in 25 senior civil servants have pocketed bonuses of between £5,000 and £7,000 for work carried out in 2010/11.
The sums were paid out despite the recommendation in January 2011 from the committee, which is chaired by Labour MP Keith Vaz, that no bonuses should be paid to senior staff.
For work in 2007/8, almost two-thirds of senior civil servants in the UKBA received bonuses of between £6,000 and £22,000.
One in 50 received bonuses of between £20,000 and £22,000, one in 10 (11%) pocketed bonuses of between £15,000 and £20,000 and more than one in eight (13%) received bonuses of between £10,000 and £15,000.
“In January 2011, we recommended that no bonuses should be paid to senior staff. Despite this, the Permanent Secretary has revealed that some staff have been rewarded with bonuses of up to £10,000,” Vaz said.
“The payment of bonuses in the midst of failures such as the relaxation of border controls, the inability to clear the asylum backlog and the reluctance to tackle bogus colleges through unannounced inspections must cease”, added the Labour MP.
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