The figure I mentioned is our estimate of what we will get after behavioural changes in terms of both payment of bonuses and, I suspect, people saying, "Okay, I will take my wage in salary." As I said earlier, the problem is not bonuses in themselves; the problem is when we start paying excessive bonuses or rewarding people for doing things that they really should not do. That is where we get the problems.
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Lord Darling of Roulanish
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 9 December 2009.
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