PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Ministry of Defence: Pay (4 July 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, (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 Ministry of Defence pays overtime to civilian staff below the Senior Civil Service in exceptional circumstances only, with advance agreement from an appropriate senior official. Senior Civil Servants are not eligible to claim any paid overtime. Additional incentives for working overtime are not paid.

As part of this Government's transparency agenda, all Departments are required to publish workforce statistics, including overtime costs. This information is available from the gov.uk website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/workforce-management-information-mod

Answered by:
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton (Conservative)
7 July 2016