Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how much has been paid to officials of the Law Officers' Departments as an additional incentive for working overtime on top of their normal overtime payments in (a) each of the last five years and (b) 2016 to date; how much has been offered to any individual staff member for a one-off occurrence; how many staff received such incentivised additional payments; from which budgets such payments were made; and at which Ministerial or official level the business cases or payment approval for such payments was made.

No such payments have been made by any of the Law Officers’ Departments during the period 1 April 2011 to date.