§ Mr. David ShawTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the total amount paid by his central Department and each agency for which he is responsible in subsistence allowances for travel(a) within the United Kingdom and (b) outside the United Kingdom in each of the last three years. [19556]
§ Mr. HowardFollowing is the available information about expenditure by my Department on subsistence allowances for travel:
£000 Inland travel 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 provisional Home Office (excluding Agencies) 1— 3,094 1,936 HM Prison Service 7,097 6,386 6,622 Forensic Science Service 102 166 131
Central Home Office Prison Service United Kingdom Passport Agency Fire Service College Forensic Science Service Number of hours of overtime for which payment has been made 1993–94 1,623,028 3,586,949 210,052 7,230 36,368 1994–95 1,548,521 3,820,594 180,843 9,726 19,736 Total amount in paid overtime 1993–94 10,840,249 16,768,020 1,206,632 33,943 446,034 1994–95 10,013,139 18,488,256 1,042,150 46,759 233,828 Information is not available for the financial year 1992–93. The overtime figures include all premia payments in respect of rostered weekend or rest day working, payments for additional hours worked and travel time. There may also be some overtime claims for 1994–95 still being processed.
The total number of working days lost through sickness in 1992 and 1993 in the Home Office, including its agencies, is as follows:
- 1992: 415,575
- 1993: 499,695
Data for 1994 are not yet available. Neither separate comparable information for the Home Office agencies, nor the monetary equivalent of the total number of days lost through sickness absence, is available.