§ Mr. David ShawTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list for each agency and the central Department for which he is responsible(a) the total hours of overtime worked for which payment has been made, (b) the total amount paid in overtime and (c) the total time in days and its monetary equivalent lost through sickness in each of the last three years. [19687]
§ Mr. Freeman[holding answer 25 April 1995]: Separate records are not maintained for all the individual defence agencies and it would require disproportionate cost to provide this information. We are, however, able to supply the overtime information requested at (a) and (b) for the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency and the Met Office. The information set out below relates to non-industrial and industrial staff for the financial years shown:
(a) Overtime hours worked (b) Amount paid £ million 1992–93—MOD including Agencies Non-industrial 8,463,679 67.7 Industrial 8,279,479 52.2 Total 16,743,158 119.9 1993–94—MOD excluding DERA Non-industrial 8,591,769 63.6 Industrial 7,372,299 48.1 Total 15,964,068 111.7 1993–94—DERA Non-industrial 687,759 4.7 Industrial 314,763 2.1 Total 1,002,522 6.8 1994–95—MOD excluding DERA and Met Office Non-industrial 7,201,061 50.5 Industrial 7,233,424 48.3 Total 14,434,485 98.8 1994–95—DERA Non-industrial 714,186 5.2 Industrial 227,960 1.5 Total 942,146 6.7 1994–95—Met Office Non-industrial 558,407 3.5 Industrial 454 0.003 Total 558,861 3.503 775W
(c) 1992 Total MOD including agencies Non-industrial 709,745 days Industrial No data available 1993 Non-industrial 737,963 days Industrial No data available 1994 Data is not yet available for this year It is not possible to give a figure for the monetary equivalent of the total number of days lost to sickness. There are too many variables involved in this calculation and it would be difficult to rely on the accuracy of any such calculation.