PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Pay (4 July 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, (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 Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not make any additional incentive payments over and above overtime payments to which staff may be entitled.

Answered by:
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Conservative)
12 July 2016