Departmental Staff (Working Hours)

HC Deb 20 March 1996 vol 274 cc212-3W

Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many persons in his Department worked in excess of 48 hours per week in any of the last 52 weeks; and what percentage of the staff employed this represents. [21506]

Sir Paul Beresford

There is no central record of the number of hours worked each week by staff in my Department. Conditioned hours are generally 41 gross in London and 42 gross elsewhere.