Staff Union Duties

Mr. Bercow
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many staff in his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies receive paid leave to undertake union duties; how many days they are allocated; and what has been the cost to public funds in 2002. [106769]

Dr. Moonie
The Ministry of Defence does not record paid time off for trade union duties by days but by percentage of their overall work time. The following table shows the number of employees who are allowed paid time off for trade union activities, the percentage of their time allowed and the cost during 2001–02. -----------------
|Industrials    |
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|Non-Industrials|
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We do not collect the information for trade union representatives in the Service Museums which are non-departmental public bodies.