Department for Education: Overtime
(asked on 25th February 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department has paid to staff in overtime in each of the last 24 months.
The amount spent on overtime payments to Department for Education staff, for the period 1 February 2014 to 31 January 2016. | |
January 2016 | £38,582 |
December 2015 | £44,893 |
November 2015 | £44,199 |
October 2015 | £37,132 |
September 2015 | £26,742 |
August 2015 | £26,380 |
July 2015 | £40,209 |
June 2015 | £36,238 |
May 2015 | £24,935 |
April 2015 | £27,064 |
March 2015 | £75,077 |
February 2015 | £46,706 |
January 2015 | £42,115 |
December 2014 | £44,897 |
November 2014 | £47,101 |
October 2014 | £40,816 |
September 2014 | £34,065 |
August 2014 | £35,993 |
July 2014 | £54,989 |
June 2014 | £45,488 |
May 2014 | £53,055 |
April 2014 | £36,765 |
March 2014 | £64,346 |
February 2014 | £53,992 |
These figures are for the core Department and cover payments to employees and to contingent labour. Those provided for the period April 2015 to January 2016 are as yet unaudited.
All employees on Department for Education contracts from grades EA to SEO are entitled to overtime payments. Grades 7 and 6 are not entitled to overtime but can claim discretionary payments for exceptionally long hours.
Overtime costs are typically around 0.5% of the total monthly payroll.