PM to examine civil servant bonuses
Updated on 12 November 2009
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised to study Ministry of Defence bonus payments after it was revealed the department's civil servants had pocketed almost £50 million this year.
There was enormous anger among troops' families after the disclosure that bonuses for bureaucrats had reached £287,809,049 since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
They were described as an insult to soldiers fighting - and losing their lives - on the frontline in Afghanistan amid claims over equipment shortages.
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