Departmental Staff (Working Hours)

HC Deb 25 March 1996 vol 274 cc401-2W

Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Attorney-General 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. [21585]

The Solicitor-General

For the departments and agency for which my right hon. and learned Friend is responsible the number of staff recorded as being paid for overtime which took their hours worked to over 48 hours in a week is in the table.

	Number of staff	Percentage of staff
Treasury Solicitor's Department	3	0.74
Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers	5	20
Serious Fraud Office	71	41.5
Government Property Lawyers	4	3

Information for the Crown Prosecution Service is not available except at disproportionate cost.

No records are held centrally of the hours worked by senior staff not eligible for paid overtime or those on flexible working schemes.