§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Defence 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. PattieFollowing is the information:
Hours thousand Costs £ thousand 1981–82 25,440 93,930 1982–83 31,549 125,670 1983–84 29,124 *123,483 * Provisional. The figures are expressed at prices current for the year in question. They exclude locally engaged employees overseas and staff of the royal ordnance factories whose costs are met through a trading fund.