HC Deb 03 February 2000 vol 343 c706W
Mr. Ashdown

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his estimate of the number of hours of(a) paid and (b) unpaid overtime by police officers for each of the last five years, broken down by each English police force. [107797]

Mr. Charles Clarke

Information is not held centrally on the number of hours of paid and unpaid overtime worked by police officers, and cannot be obtained without incurring disproportionate cost.