Expenditure on overtime in HM Prison Service is as follows.
£ 2006-07 10,610,045.39 2005-06 11,290,807.25 2004-05 11,845,928.68 2003-04 12,253,706.70 2002-03 12,074,887.73
In addition, the prison service has operated in some establishments a Contracted Supplementary Hours (CSH) scheme to meet specific operational needs, by which it pays for agreed volumes of additional hours from individual staff for specific periods at a standardised hourly rate. In some localised circumstances it is also possible for staff to work additional hours, for which they receive time off in lieu of payment. The expenditure on CSH (to nearest thousand pounds) is as follows:
£ 2006-07 19,684,000 2005-06 15,226,000 2004-05 17,183,000 2003-04 18,341,000 2002-03 1— 1 Not separately recorded.
Expenditure on overtime in the contracted out prisons is not collected by the Ministry of Justice.
The Ministry of Justice does not currently collect information on overtime expenditure from the 42 probation boards.