Senior civil servants are under pressure to postpone their annual bonuses this year, after new figures revealed they scooped £26m in 2008. Cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell, has already announced he will not collect his annual bonus this year – thought to be worth around £13,000 – because of the recession. But other senior staff are also under pressure to follow suit. Figures obtained by ITN show that 141 senior staff at the former Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform shared £1.2m in bonuses last year. Mandarins at the Department of Health, meanwhile, shared £1.9m.