Treasury Finance Secretary Stephen Timms has told the BBC that the government has taken a firm position on bank bonuses and that "there must must be no rewards for failure in the banks that have benefited from public support."
Payments totalling £120m are reportedly to go to workers at Lloyds - which is 43% state-owned - despite record losses at the bank's subsidiary HBOS.
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