Speeches

Jonathan Ashworth – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-04-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2016 to Question 28689, how many staff in his Department received overtime pay in each of the last 24 months.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

The number of FCO staff who have received overtime payments in each of the last 24 months is:

2014

April

326

May

219

June

226

July

352

August

363

September

271

October

429

November

213

December

191

2015

January

188

February

208

March

278

April

294

May

220

June

320

July

200

August

241

September

477

October

309

November

247

December

258

2016

January

167

February

255

March

197

Staff can only claim overtime when required by management to work more than their conditioned hours. In the majority of cases claims are made after exceptional demands on Foreign Office staff during times of global crises.