Asked by: John Pugh (Liberal Democrat - Southport)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, approximately how many (a) British and (b) non-British nationals are employed cleaning the Westminster estate of the Law Officers' Departments.
Answered by Robert Buckland
The Law Officer's Departments do not directly employ any staff to clean its estate. All cleaning services are provided via a national facilities management contract or via managed service agreements.
Asked by: John Pugh (Liberal Democrat - Southport)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of staff on the payroll of the Law Officers' Departments who work in Westminster are (a) British nationals and (b) nationals of another country.
Answered by Robert Buckland
All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules.
Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.
More broadly, the Government will be consulting in due course on how we work with business to ensure that workers in this country have the skills that they need to get a job. There are no proposals to publish lists of the number or proportion of foreign workers.