§ Mr. Eldon Griffithsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the number of overtime hours 633W worked on average per month by police constables in each police force in England and Wales during the year 1977.
§ Dr. SummerskillComprehensive information is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. The earnings survey carried out by the Police Council last year showed the average overtime hours worked by uniformed police constables in one week during April 1977 to be as follows:
Average overtime hours worked (excluding public holiday overtime) Force Metropolitan Police 10.57 City of London Police 3.81 Avon and Somerset 0.19 Bedfordshire Police 3.24 Cambridgeshire 0.29 Cheshire 0.66 Cleveland 0.92 Cumbria 0.66 Derbyshire 1.07 Devon and Cornwall 0.81 Dorset Police 1.23 Durham 0.83 Dyfed-Powys Police 0.22 Essex Police 0.97 Gloucestershire 1.34 Greater Manchester Police 3.97 Gwent 0.36 Hampshire 3.30 Hertfordshire 4.07 Humberside Police 5.54 Kent 1.80 Lancashire 1.04 Leicestershire 0.86 Lincolnshire Police 0.49 Merseyside Police 3.92 Norfolk 1.78 Northamptonshire Police 2.52 Northumbria Police 2.03 North Wales Police 1.07 North Yorkshire Police 0.91 Nottinghamshire 1.32 South Wales 0.17 South Yorkshire Police 2.92 Staffordshire Police 1.03 Suffolk 1.59 Surrey 1.35 Sussex Police 1.04 Thames Valley Police 2.70 Warwickshire 1.17 West Mercia 1.27 West Midlands Police 4.61 West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police 3.32 Wiltshire 0.84