Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Overtime
(asked on 25th February 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department has paid to staff in overtime in each of the last 24 months.
The table below provides a breakdown of overtime paid and the number of claimants for each month in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) HQ, in the last 24 months from February 2014 to January 2016.
The relevant budget holder must give approval before overtime can be worked or overtime pay claimed. Overtime pay is non-pensionable and can only be paid to staff below the Senior Civil Service. Approximately 0.3% of the annual BIS paybill is paid in overtime.
Month | Overtime Payments – BIS HQ | Number of BIS HQ Staff Making Claims |
February 2014 | £55,032.15 | 98 |
March 2014 | £73,754.92 | 102 |
April 2014 | £61,699.33 | 97 |
May 2014 | £38,664.16 | 75 |
June 2014 | £64,135.44 | 91 |
July 2014 | £79,053.18 | 106 |
August 2014 | £45,977.38 | 75 |
September 2014 | £38,306.55 | 69 |
October 2014 | £33,276.09 | 85 |
November 2014 | £44,786.28 | 68 |
December 2014 | £47,025.85 | 80 |
January 2015 | £45,380.49 | 64 |
February 2015 | £58,541.14 | 95 |
March 2015 | £68,139.08 | 99 |
April 2015 | £52,546.46 | 98 |
May 2015 | £34,257.16 | 69 |
June 2015 | £44,667.14 | 87 |
July 2015 | £55,187.86 | 81 |
August 2015 | £47,242.28 | 71 |
September 2015 | £27,737.41 | 61 |
October 2015 | £44,006.48 | 72 |
November 2015 | £52,376.22 | 74 |
December 2015 | £48,453.85 | 71 |
January 2016 | £52,221.58 | 69 |