If it makes you feel better, there is no current pay deal in place, and there is to my knowledge no performance award being offered this year.
So the whole of the Telegraph's article is a bunch of made up falsehoods and the comments of The MoD who said it was impossible to rein in
bonuses this year were never said.
Under a three year agreement made by the last Government
performance awards were part of the total wage bill paid out naturally, it is just that a proportion of pay was spent on a performance basis.
Somebody somewhere is spinning methinks, who though I'm not sure.