Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information she holds on the rate of remuneration for cleaners in her Department.

Cleaning services across the department are outsourced. Suppliers are responsible for setting rates of pay for their staff and rates for cleaners vary dependent on their age, location and market rates. They have informed the department that they currently pay, as a minimum, either the National Minimum Wage or the National Living Wage for cleaning the department’s buildings. The rates set by government for the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage are to rise in April 2018.