As part of the Autumn Statement on 29 November, the Chancellor announced that public sector pay awards, including those for the civil service, will average at 1% for the two years following the public sector pay freeze.The Government has confirmed that the public sector pay freeze will end in March 2013, but given the wider pressures on the public finances, there is a need for a further period of pay restraint.
For the some 55,000 civilian staff covered by the MOD main pay award, the public sector pay freeze began in 2011, will continue to apply in 2012 and will end in 2013. Other civilian staff whose pay is linked to counterparts outside MOD such as the MDP, fire service, teachers and most medical grades will be treated in accordance with their pay link.
