£220k bonuses for government workers in five years, FOI shows

Staff at a government department have shared bonuses of more than £220,000 in the last five years.

A Freedom of Information request asked how much had been paid in bonuses to Department for Enterprise staff since 2019, and how many staff had been given the payments.

In its response, the department said in the last five years, £222,529 had been paid out.

For each of those years, three workers were given a bonus - until last year, when that number more than doubled to seven.