Gareth Snell

The House of Commons Commission does not hold pay information about individual contractor staff.

The House of Commons is an accredited London Living Wage Employer. In order to obtain our licence the House had to satisfy the Living Wage Foundation that no directly employed or contracted workers engaged on the Parliamentary estate are paid less than the London Living Wage. We can confirm that to our knowledge no contractor working on the Parliamentary Estate is being paid less than the London Living Wage. It is a requirement in our contracts that contractors and sub-contractors’ employees working on the Parliamentary Estate are paid at least the London Living Wage. Additionally, for House of Commons contracts and where the Lords and Commons contract together jointly, contractors and subcontractors which provide services in relation to our contracts, while not having a presence on Parliamentary premises, are required to pay staff working directly on our contracts at least the London Living Wage or the UK Living Wage if based outside London.

I would refer the hon. Member to my response to his question (127222) answered today.

The Attorney General’s Office does not currently have any staff that are paid below the Real Living Wage or the London Living Wage.

The Attorney General’s Office does not currently have any staff that are paid below the Real Living Wage or the London Living Wage.

The highest paid member of staff in the Attorney General’s Office is contracted to work 41 hours a week (including lunch breaks).

As at 31st August 2018, the Attorney General’s Office had 40 staff on payroll, 3 on Secondment in & 1 Contractor (agency). The staff on payroll can be broken down as follows:

The majority of facilities management services, which include cleaning, security, and catering, are outsourced to an independent provider with the exception of one central London location that manages their own cleaning and security.

All outsourced and self-delivered facilities management staff are paid the National Living Wage or above.

No staff in Cabinet Office, No.10 and its agencies that work inside Greater London are paid at a rate below the Real Living Wage for London of £10.20 per hour.

No staff in Cabinet Office, No.10 and its agencies that work outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the National Real Living Wage of £8.75 per hour.

No staff in Cabinet Office, No.10 and its agencies that work inside Greater London are paid at a rate below the London Living Wage of £10.20 per hour.

A total of 85 staff in Cabinet Office, No.10 and its agencies that work outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the London Living Wage of £10.20 per hour. They are all paid above the National Real Living Wage.

The weekly contracted hours for the highest paid member of staff in Cabinet Office, No.10 and its agencies is 41. However, people in senior roles will routinely work much longer hours than this.

Cabinet Office has the following numbers of staff:

a) The number of staff employed directly is published online at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-workforce-management-data-2018-to-2019.

b) 594 full time equivalent (FTE) people were on secondment in to Cabinet Office or on a loan from another government department. This is not published elsewhere and is dated at Quarter 1 (April – June 2018).

c) The number of contractors in Cabinet Office is published online at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-workforce-management-data-2018-to-2019.

Cleaning, security and catering services are delivered to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy by external contractors. We do not hold detailed pay data for contractor employees.

Specific rates are a matter for each individual contractor, but assurances are provided to ensure full compliance with the requirements of the National Living Wage. In April 2019 Government will increase the National Living Wage to £8.21 per hour. This is an above inflation increase that will see a full-time minimum wage worker over £2,750 better off over the course of a year compared to when the policy was introduced.

We value all of our staff and they all deserve a fair and competitive wage, whether they are directly employed or working through our contractors. The Department has agreed with its facilities management and catering contractors that they will align the pay of their cleaning, catering, mailroom and security staff to the appropriate median rates for that occupation, as identified in the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. The median applies from 1 March 2019 and will be aligned annually.

There are no staff in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy paid less than the National Living Wage.

There are no staff in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy paid less than the National Living Wage.

The highest paid member of staff within the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is contracted to work 42 hours per week, including an allowance of an hour a day for meal breaks. As a Senior Civil Servant, they are required to work such additional hours as may from time to time be reasonable and necessary for the efficient performance of duties, for which they are not eligible to be paid overtime.

The number of staff employed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy are as follows:

Employed directly: 3538

Seconded in: 53

Under contract: 80*

*excludes agency staff etc supplied via an agency.

DCMS is based only in Greater London, and all our properties have facilities management provided by other Government departments.

No staff in the Department working (a) inside or (b) outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the Real Living Wage.

No staff in the Department working (a) inside or (b) outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the London Living Wage.

As of 1st September 2018, the highest paid member of staff in the department has contracted hours of 41 hours per week, including unpaid daily breaks of one hour.

The number of staff in each of those categories at 31 July 2018 was as follows:

a) 985

b) 8

c) 54

The department does not employ cleaners, security guards and catering staff.

Cleaning, security duties and catering services in buildings managed by the department are outsourced under facilities management contracts. Suppliers are responsible for setting rates of pay for their staff and rates vary dependent on the age and location of staff and market rates. All suppliers are required to pay, as a minimum, either the National Minimum Wage or the National Living Wage. The rates set by the government for the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage will rise in April 2019.

Information on the loans paid to students on higher education courses is published annually by the Student Loans Company in the statistics publication Student Support for Higher Education in England.

https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx.

A breakdown of these statistics by subject of study is not available.

Information on the proportion of student loans not expected to be repaid is published annually by the department in the statistics publication Student Loan Forecasts, England.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2017-to-2018.

A breakdown of these statistics by subject of study is not available.

The Department for Education and its executive agencies staff, including all those inside and outside of Greater London are all paid at least the Real Living Wage.

All staff based inside Greater London are paid at least the London Living Wage. There are 103 staff based outside Greater London that are paid below the London Living Wage but are all paid the Real Living Wage.

The Department for Education and its executive agencies staff, including all those inside and outside of Greater London are all paid at least the Real Living Wage.

All staff based inside Greater London are paid at least the London Living Wage. There are 103 staff based outside Greater London that are paid below the London Living Wage but are all paid the Real Living Wage.

The highest paid member of staff in the department is a full-time member of the Senior Civil Service (SCS). SCS members are required to work a minimum (over a 5-day week) of 42 hours, including daily meal breaks of one hour.

Defra’s office cleaners, security guards and catering staff are provided through outsourced suppliers. These suppliers hold information on the rate of remuneration of their staff, however our contracts with the suppliers require all staff to be paid the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation, as a minimum.

The Living Wage Foundation rates can be found at the Living Wage Foundation website (https://www.livingwage.org.uk/). There is a rate for London based staff and a rate for staff based outside of London.

The Real Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation is a voluntary rate set each November and is currently £8.75 per hour. There are no staff who work (a) inside Greater London and (b) outside Greater London in Defra that are paid at a rate below the Real Living Wage.

The London Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation is a voluntary rate set each November and is currently £10.20 per hour. The National Living wage is currently £7.83. There are no staff who work inside Greater London in Defra that are paid at a rate below the London Living Wage.

There are 11 staff in the Department working outside of Greater London paid at a rate below the London Living wage as described by the Living Wage Foundation.

Senior Civil Servants (SCS) are contracted to work a minimum (over a 5 day week) of either 41 or 42 hours, including daily meal breaks for one hour. The new model contract was introduced on 1 July 2013, and standardised the working hours to 42 hours which was applicable to all new staff as well as those staff being promoted into or within SCS, from that date forward.

The contracted hours of the highest paid member of staff in the Department is 42 hours per week.

The breakdown of staff in the department as at 31 July 2018 is shown in the following table:

The Department does not directly employ any staff in the professions listed.

The Department leases its offices from other Government departments. Those departments may employ staff either directly or via agencies. Therefore we do not hold this information.

I can confirm that all staff directly employed by the Department for Exiting the European Union are paid in line with the Government’s National Living Wage. All staff are based in London and are paid in line with the living wage, as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.

I can confirm that all staff directly employed by the Department for Exiting the European Union are paid in line with the Government’s National Living Wage. All staff are based in London and are paid in line with the living wage, as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.

All SCS staff are employed on standard Senior Civil Service employment contracts. Due to the small numbers of staff affected the Department is unable to release this information as disclosure would contravene data protection principles.