§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many hours of overtime have been worked by employees in his Department in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and what was the total cost of this overtime work in each of those years.
§ Mr. WhitneyAlthough overtime costs are closely monitored, no cumulative totals of the number of hours worked are kept. The total cost of overtime worked by Foreign and Commonwealth Office employees over the last three years was as follows:
£ 1981–82 4,774,067 1982–83 5,250,472 1983–84 5,151,837 These figures include, inter alia, the cost of overtime worked by members of staff at GCHQ, the ODA, the Passport Office—which ceased to be part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1 April 1984 — and locally engaged staff overseas. United Kingdom-based staff serve overseas on an "all-hours" liability basis and are not entitled to overtime payments.