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<p>Responses to the two parts of the questions are as follows:</p><p>Part (a) - At
this point it cannot be determined if the full data set for directly employed staff
is available. The reason for this is because in Feb 2017 MOJ rationalised its payrolls
and moved to a new payroll system (known as SOP), so any prior year’s data, if available,
would need to be sourced from legacy systems. To do this would require raising requests
with several legacy suppliers who could then determine if the data was available.
The cost of doing this would be disproportionate. Only data for the following financial
periods are available. This data covers the MOJ group:</p><p>- February 2017 - March
2017 - £18,418,976</p><p>- April 2017 – March 2018 - £103,919,954</p><p>- April 2018
– March 2019 - £93,402,051</p><p>- April 2019 - June 2019 - £21,944,613</p><p>The
average number of employees throughout the above periods was:</p><p>- In 2017 - 71,000</p><p>-
In 2018 – 72,000</p><p>- In 2019 – 76,000</p><p>It should also be noted that there
are many reasons why someone may get paid overtime, for example, in prisons for carrying
out bedwatch or dealing with incidents of unrest. All of these elements have been
included in the above figures.</p><p> </p><p>Part (b) – This data is not available
because MOJ engage agency staff via third party providers such as Brook Street, and
these staff are not on the MOJ payroll and therefore details of any overtime paid
are not held by MOJ. MOJ pay for these individuals, who are generally charged out
at an hourly rate, via invoice.</p>
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