Tom Pursglove – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Northern Ireland Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Pursglove on 2015-10-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many civil servants in her Department are members of trades unions; how much working hours facility time is claimed by each such civil servant; and what the cost of that facility time is to her Department.

Mr Ben Wallace

My Department does not hold records on the number of staff who are members of a trades union as this is a matter for the individual.

Facilities time is made available to the union representatives in the Northern Ireland Office. During the last quarter for which figures are available they used a total of two hours for meetings at a cost to the Department of approximately £37.