Annual salaries, roles and terms of service for personal staff to top members of the Government have come belatedly before MPs for two fiscal years — but legislators continue to wait on three earlier overdue reports breaking down spending that are several years past deadline.

The Opposition said a request had been sent on December 12 to David Burt, the Premier, requesting details up to the most recent spending, in accordance with the law.

Legislation requires the annual reports to be tabled before the end of May each year describing salaries, length of tenure and roles during the prior financial year.

None of the reports have met the requirement, which comes under Section 9 of the Premier, Ministers and Opposition Leader Personal Staff Act 2019.

That legislation, which was approved by the House of Assembly in May of 2019, was amended when it reached the Senate the following month.

In that instance, after a vote in the Upper House, senators moved that the annual reports would supply details for everyone defined under the Act in the previous fiscal year, rather than limiting it to those appointed from the previous January to December.

The One Bermuda Alliance highlighted last week that, before the House met on Friday, the most recent breakdown of costs had been revealed in late 2020 for the 2019-20 financial year.

Mr Burt said on Friday: “This is not a matter of the Government attempting to duck responsibility, but it is clearly not the Premier who puts these particular reports together.”

He said there had been changes in the personnel involved in compiling the information and told the House that gathering the details was “not as easy as advertised”.

However, Mr Burt noted that “matters in prior years may already be in the public domain as there are parliamentary questions that are asked”.

The OBA statement said Opposition MPs “still look forward to the Premier producing the reports for years 2020-21 through 2022-23, also as required, and hope that he will provide these when Parliament resumes” on May 1.

On Friday, Mr Burt told the House that he hoped to have the 2025-26 report available for tabling “when we return”.

Mr Burt tabled copies of the two older annual reports in the House, although online versions remained unavailable on the parliamentary website this week.

The Royal Gazette queried why it had taken until this month for the reports covering fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to be tabled — as well as when the details covering fiscal years 2021, 2022 and 2023 would be made public, and the reasons for their delay in coming before the House.

A spokeswoman said: “As the Premier indicated in the House of Assembly, the preparation of these reports has required the consolidation and verification of records across ministries to ensure accuracy and completeness.

“The reports for fiscal years 2023-24 and 2024-25 have been tabled and work is ongoing to address the remaining reports, which will be brought forward within the coming period of sittings.”

The latest reports divulged roles and payment for 17 various public officers, although their times on the jobs varied from years to months, and not all were listed as current.

One, Jean-Ann Hayward, covered two roles for the Premier in 2024-25: head of operations, and aide to the Premier, at yearly salaries of $128,645 and $114,000 respectively — although service terms for the latter role covered only December 2024 to February 2025, when she switched over to her operations role, which was listed as current.

Also for the Premier, Jordan Scott-Furtado was listed for 2023 through 2025 as another top earner under the role of special adviser and deputy chief of staff, with a yearly salary of $128,645. His terms of service were also listed as “current”.

In total, the reports detailed eight roles for the Premier’s staff in each year.

The Leader of the Opposition had an administrative assistant, Judy Benevides, listed for both years on $841.73 per week.

On the ministerial side, staff went from four in 2023-24 to six in 2024-25.

The top outlay in both fiscal years went to the role of executive assistant and aide to the Minister of Public Works, at an annual salary of $116,317.

The figure covered Trina Bean, whose terms of service ran from September 2018 to February 2025 — the longest tenure for any personal staff member listed.

Mr Burt’s preamble to the reports commended the “invaluable” assistance brought by the various public officers.

He added: “In addition to the yeoman service they provide, many have gone on to careers within the public service or in the political realm and the period as personal staff has served to develop their skills making them that much more equipped for their next career opportunities.”

Mr Burt’s staff included three media-related advisers for both fiscal years on contracts of varying duration.

In 2023-24, the Premier employed two social media co-ordinators, as well as a media and engagements co-ordinator from December 2024 to February 2025.

Most recently, Joanne Ball-Burgess was an adviser to the Premier listed as “senior media and engagement adviser” from February 2025 to “current”.

Ms Ball-Burgess had run unsuccessfully in February last year as a parliamentary candidate for the Progressive Labour Party in the General Election for Warwick North East (Constituency 25).

For the ministers’ personal staff, Jaché Adams, who was appointed junior finance minister in September 2024, was adviser to the finance minister from May 2020 to February 2025.

Mr Adams took over the portfolio of Minister of Public Works and Environment in March 2025.

The two new roles in ministerial staff listed for 2024-25 were Dahji Grimes as aide to the Minister of Finance from December 2024, and Sherri Simmons, who served as an adviser and aide to the Minister of National Security from July to December 2024, and for three weeks in March 2025.

Her role was the lowest annual salary listed in either report, at $46,800.