§ Mr. GrocottTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many civil servants are employed in his Department; what are their average weekly working hours; and how28W many are (a) on flexitime, (b) on job-sharing schemes, (c) on a four-day working week or nine-day fortnight and (d) able to retire with full pension rights at 60 years.
§ Mr. BrookeThere were 3,164 staff in post in the Treasury on 1 February 1988, including 852 part-time staff—each counted as half a post. Full-time staff work conditioned hours. Information is not held centrally on the hours of staff working part-time, nor on the schemes under which they do so. Six hundred and thirty-three staff were on flexitime. Most full-time and part-time civil servants are currently members of the principal Civil Service pension scheme — the main exceptions are those who work less than 15 hours a week and casual staff—and are able to retire at 60 years with pension rights related to their final salary and their full length of service, which varies case by case, up to that age.