Jonathan Ashworth – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-02-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department has paid to staff in overtime in each of the last 24 months.
Mr Tobias Ellwood
The Foreign Commonwealth and Office has paid the following amounts to its UK-based staff in overtime in each of the last 24 months:
|
March 2014 |
£196,203 |
|
April 2014 |
£222,453 |
|
May 2014 |
£152,223 |
|
June 2014 |
£165,017 |
|
July 2014 |
£225,892 |
|
August 2014 |
£246,323 |
|
September 2014 |
£240,939 |
|
October 2014 |
£466,415 |
|
November 2014 |
£167,582 |
|
December 2014 |
£159,043 |
|
January 2015 |
£159,538 |
|
February 2015 |
£122,033 |
|
March 2015 |
£203,532 |
|
April 2015 |
£178,879 |
|
May 2015 |
£132,817 |
|
June 2015 |
£192,890 |
|
July 2015 |
£189,593 |
|
August 2015 |
£205,078 |
|
September 2015 |
£93,259 |
|
October 2015 |
£216,031 |
|
November 2015 |
£196,363 |
|
December 2015 |
£208,858 |
|
January 2016 |
£113,002 |
|
February 2016 |
£222,666 |
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 global crises, such as the Nepal earthquake and terrorist shootings in Tunisia.
