Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the contracted hours are for the highest paid member of staff in his Department.

Senior Civil Servants (SCS) are contracted to work a minimum (over a five day week) either 41 or 42 hours, including daily meal breaks for one hour. The new model contracts was introduced on 1 July 2013, which standardise the working hours to 42 hours which was applicable to all new staff as well as those staff being promoted into or within SCS, from that date forward.