A spokeswoman for the Prime Minister said Mr Blair had to use

A spokeswoman for the Prime Minister said Mr Blair had to use the flight for security. The family would pay the commercial equivalent for Mrs Blair and the couple's children, she said.The two aircraft in the royal squadron - the HS125 and the BAe 146 - had been used to fly both Margaret Thatcher and John Major on holiday. "There is nothing different about the arrangements for this year than previous years," she said.Last year it was reported that the Blairs' holiday would cost a total of £750,000. In 1998 newspapers reported Conservative complaints that the use of the royal jet would cost £25,000.The family refused to pose for photographs yesterday at a family service at a private chapel next to the Tuscan villa where they are staying with Prince Girolamo Strozzi.

They are expected to have a photocall tomorrow.With the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, honeymooning in the US, reports suggested that the Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, was ready to take charge should a crisis develop. But Number 10 said Mr Blair remained firmly in touch with issues in Britain.. Performance-related pay systems covering more than 700,000 public servants are "fundamentally flawed", according to a leading employment relations analyst. Performance-related pay systems covering more than 700,000 public servants are "fundamentally flawed", according to a leading employment relations analyst. Only 18 per cent of senior managers in the public sector thought they improved productivity and only one-quarter said they enhanced commitment, Industrial Relations Services (IRS) found.The approach is used to reward all civil servants, and the Government intends to press ahead with the system for teachers despite a High Court ruling halting the process.Senior managers in the public sector think their staff are deeply cynical about it. Some 34 per cent of public servants believe there is a quota system, so that a set number of employees will receive an increase whatever their performance.A survey of 125 organisations showed that compared with private industry, employees in public services are more likely to feel that line managers are inadequately trained in assessment techniques.Around three-quarters of private sector firms believe merit schemes are "fairly successful", compared with less than half in the public sector. Nearly 75 per cent of senior officials in public services said the pay awards were too small to motivate employees and 29 per cent said that it was more costly than the system it replaced.Jeremy Baugh, editor of the IRS Pay and Benefits Bulletin, said that performance pay systems in state organisations were "less successful and more problematic" than those in private industry.

"The findings are likely to make uncomfortable reading for the Government and will add to the mounting body of evidence which suggests that performance pay in the public sector is fundamentally flawed."Last month, the High Court declared the system being introduced in schools was unlawful as the Government had not consulted teachers or Parliament. The Department for Education and Employment is now engaged in a consultation process and the first payment of £2,000 to teachers will probably be made later this year.Mr Baugh said that in parts of the Civil Service individual performance pay had been a "disaster". Whitehall was switching to group merit pay, where whole sections or departments qualified."You would have thought they would have learned the lesson from the Civil Service, instead they have embraced it with vigour for schools. They could end up with egg on their faces if the problems are replicated and I see no reason why the same problems should not arise," Mr Baugh said.. Ministers were faced with threats last night of a renewed "naming and shaming" campaign against paedophiles, when they refused to commit to giving the public access to offenders' names and addresses.

Ministers were faced with threats last night of a renewed "naming and shaming" campaign against paedophiles, when they refused to commit to giving the public access to offenders' names and addresses. The News of the World had claimed victory in its campaign for a "Sarah's Law", in memory of the murdered eight year-old schoolgirl, Sarah Payne.But Home Office minister Paul Boateng made it clear yesterday that it was up to law enforcement agencies to decide when to tell members of a community about sex offenders who were deemed a risk.In a BBC television interview he said the Government would continue to strengthen the law, but added that the newspaper's campaign had threatened public order and child welfare. "The decisions about whether or not people are told names and addresses are not matters for newspapers, they are not matters for ministers, they are matters for police and the probation service," he said.A spokesman for the newspaper, which had demanded controlled public access to the register, responded by threatening the Government: "The campaign has not been dropped, suspended or discontinued. If in time we feel that no progress is being made we will re-look at our position regarding the campaign." However, he added that no time limit was being put on its demands.On Friday, the News of the World halted plans to publish the names and photographs of 110,000 paedophiles. Yesterday, it said it had "put on hold" plans to publish details of a further 100 offenders. The paper reported that 300,000 people had signed a petition for a "Sarah's Law", and published a draft of its revised objectives, which included indefinite detention for dangerous paedophiles.Last Thursday and Friday evenings, mobs of up to 300 people descended on the home of a 53-year-old taxi driver from Portsmouth who was named by the paper. The tabloid made no mention of the violence, but it did claim to have "nailed a monster" by publishing a photograph of a former swimming instructor arrested in Tenerife last week in connection with sex assaults. Cleveland police said it had endangered months of work to extradite him.There was further vigilante activity yesterday, when a crowd gathered outside the West London home of Gary Glitter, after another Sunday tabloid said the disgraced pop singer had returned home after five months abroad.