PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Treasury: Pay (4 July 2016)

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, (a) how much has been paid to officials of his Department as an additional incentive for working overtime on top of their normal overtime payments, (b) how much has been offered to any individual staff member for a one-off occurrence, (c) how many staff received such incentivised additional payments, (d) from which budgets such payments were made and (e) at which Ministerial or official level the business cases or payment approval for such payments was made in (i) each of the last five years and (ii) 2016 to date.

Asked by:
Sarah Champion (Labour)

The Treasury pays officials where overtime working is necessary. It does not offer additional incentives on top of official’s normal overtime payments nor does it pay for one-off occurrences.

Answered by:
Dame Harriett Baldwin (Conservative)
11 July 2016