PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Pay (4 July 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, (a) how much has been paid to officials of her 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)

Defra does not pay any additional incentives to staff for working overtime on top of the normal departmental overtime payments.

Answered by:
George Eustice (Conservative)
12 July 2016