Departmental Overtime

Mr. Hoban
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the cost of overtime payments paid to staff in his Department was in each of the last 12 months, broken down by pay grade.

Mrs. McGuire
The following table details the cost of overtime payments in the Department for Work and Pensions by grade and month for the last complete financial year. The total cost from April 2007 to March 2008 is £64,528 representing some 2.3 per cent. of DWP’s total pay bill in this period.

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|£000                                                |
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|                                                    |AA/band A|AO/band B|EO/band C|HEO/band D|SEO/band E|G7|G6|Total|
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|2007                                                |||||||||
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|April                                               |188|2,195|2,191|315|117|0|0|5,006|
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|May                                                 |150|2,001|1,827|269|99|1|0|4,347|
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|June                                                |232|2,958|2,522|283|125|0|0|6,120|
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|July                                                |170|2,202|2,066|247|80|0|0|4,765|
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|August                                              |192|2,666|2,489|237|86|0|0|5,670|
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|September                                           |181|2,456|2,191|239|92|0|0|5,159|
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|October                                             |118|1,679|1,848|246|89|0|0|3,980|
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|November                                            |257|3,216|2,971|326|117|0|0|6,887|
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|December                                            |138|1,648|1,699|223|83|0|0|3,791|
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|2008                                                |||||||||
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|January                                             |163|2,224|1,799|204|85|0|0|4,475|
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|February                                            |261|3,452|3,073|334|98|0|2|7,220|
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|March                                               |269|3,258|3,093|374|112|1|1|7,108|
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|Total                                               |2,319|29,955|27,769|3,297|1,183|2|3|64,528|
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|Note:Includes travel time, ERNIC and superannuation.|
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