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UK Border Agency: Overtime

Volume 506: debated on Wednesday 24 February 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much the UK Border Agency spent on overtime payments to civil servants at grade (a) 5 and (b) 6 in each of the last two years. (317150)

The amount that the UK Border Agency spent on overtime payments to civil servants at grade (a) senior civil service and (b) six in each of the last two years was (a) nothing and (b) £1,684.

Home Office civil servants in the UK Border Agency at grade (a) 5, are not eligible for overtime payments and, (this grade has now been re-graded into the senior civil service whose contracts specifically exclude overtime). Civil service staff at grade 6 level are not eligible for overtime payments. There is guidance on discretionary payments instead of overtime, which are used rarely.