Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what information his Department holds on the rate of remuneration for (a) cleaners, (b) security guards and (c) catering staff in his Department in (i) Greater London and (ii) outside Greater London.
Answered by Nigel Adams
Cleaning and security guard services provided to the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales are undertaken by outsourced providers under Ministry of Justice contracts.
Rates of pay for cleaners and security guards are determined by their respective employers and are not held by the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales or Ministry of Justice.
All employers are obligated to pay at least the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage.
The Office does not have any in-house catering facilities.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Scotland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what information his Department holds on the rate of remuneration for (a) cleaners, (b) security guards and (c) catering staff in his Department in (i) Greater London and (ii) outside Greater London.
Answered by David Mundell
The Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland has an office in both Edinburgh and London.
It has contracts in place for both Security and Cleaning Services at its Edinburgh office. Specific rates of pay are a matter for each individual contractor, as the employer, but assurances are provided to ensure full compliance with the requirements of the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage. Both suppliers pay the National Living Wage or above.
The London office is leased from the Government Property Agency, who are responsible for the management of the building and delivery of support services. Information on the rates of pay paid to Security and Cleaning staff is not held by the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland.
The Office has no catering staff in either location.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what information her Department holds on the rate of remuneration for (a) cleaners, (b) security guards and (c) catering staff in her Department in (i) Greater London and (ii) outside Greater London.
Answered by John Penrose
My Department holds the following information on the rate of remuneration for (a) cleaners, (b) security guards and (c) catering staff.
(i) Greater London - No information is held. These services are charged as part of our Landlords service charge.
(ii) Outside Greater London - No individual remuneration rate is held. Contacts are held collaboratively, by the Northern Ireland Centre of Procurement Excellence. Within these contracts there are general clauses requiring contractors to comply with labour laws, minimum wage etc.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information her Department holds on the rate of remuneration for (a) cleaners, (b) security guards and (c) catering staff in her Department in (i) Greater London and (ii) outside Greater London.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
We can confirm that the Department holds information on the rate of remuneration for (a) cleaners & (b) security guards in (i) Greater London and (ii) outside Greater London.
The Department does not hold any information on the rate of remuneration for (c) catering staff which is part of a service price inclusive of catering staff costs.
The rates of remuneration are considered commercially sensitive and were not disclosed at point of contract award.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the rate of remuneration for (a) cleaners, (b) security guards and (c) catering staff in his Department in (i) Greater London and (ii) outside Greater London.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Cleaning services, security guarding services and catering services across the department are mostly outsourced. Suppliers are responsible for setting rates of pay for their staff and rates vary dependent on their age, location 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 government for the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage are to rise in April 2019.
Staff employed by the department receive a salary that is at or above National Living Wage.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what information her Department holds on the rate of remuneration for (a) cleaners, (b) security guards and (c) catering staff in her Department in (i) Greater London and (ii) outside Greater London.
Answered by Alistair Burt
DFID has 2 HQ buildings in the UK, one in East Kilbride and one in Whitehall. We have outsourced our requirement for total facilities management services to Interserve as part of an Affiliates Cluster arrangement managed by the Cabinet Office.
All cleaning, catering and security staff are paid the national living wage or above in our East Kilbride office and the London living wage or above in the Whitehall office.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many babies were born in (a) an obstetric unit, (b) a midwifery unit situated alongside an obstetric unit, (c) a standalone midwifery unit, (d) at home, (e) in another setting in the most recent period for which information is available.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The most recent relevant data available are from the ‘Maternity Services Monthly Statistics - September 2018 Experimental Statistics’, published on 3 January 2019. This is a report on National Health Service-funded maternity services in England for September 2018, using data submitted to the Maternity Services Data Set. The totals in the following table reflect data received from 127 NHS-funded maternity providers in England who submitted data and reflect responses to questions on the place of birth of babies born in September 2018.
Place of birth | Total number of babies born (September 2018) |
Midwifery unit, co-located with consultant obstetric unit | 3,342 |
Midwifery unit, co-located with other non-obstetric consultant unit | 107 |
Midwifery unit, stand alone | 651 |
Midwifery unit, type not known | 1,923 |
At a domestic address | 822 |
Consultant ward | 15,339 |
General medical practitioner (GMP) ward | 5 |
Consultant/GMP/midwife ward | 24,600 |
Other hospital or institution | 5 |
Ward/unit without delivery facilities | 138 |
None of the above | 132 |
Not known | 299 |
Missing Value / Value outside reporting parameters | 1,065 |
Of the 132 NHS-funded maternity providers in England, 127 submitted data relating to births in September 2018. NHS Digital is continuing to work closely with providers who did not respond or did not provide complete data and expects coverage and data quality to increase over time. Further details can be found at the following link:
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much was paid in (a) tuition fee loans and (b) maintenance loans with respect to students undertaking undergraduate midwifery courses (a) in total and (b) on average per student midwife in each academic year since 2016-17; and what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of such loans that will be repaid by people who received them.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
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.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average cost to the NHS has been of employing a midwife on a full-time basis in each of the last five years.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
The Department’s estimates of the average cost to the National Health Service employing one midwife at a full-time equivalent (FTE) are set out in the following table in each of the last five years. These costs include total earnings, national insurance and pension contributions.
| Estimated Average Pay bill per FTE (Midwife) |
2013-14 | £46,053 |
2014-15 | £45,955 |
2015-16 | £46,096 |
2016-17 | £47,224 |
2017-18 | £47,381 |
Source: The Department’s Headline HCHS pay bill metrics, which are based primarily on earnings statistics published by NHS Digital, supplemented by employer pension and national insurance contributions estimates informed by unpublished and unvalidated data from the Electronic Staff Record Data Warehouse.
Pay bill per FTE levels do not depend solely on pay policy and pay awards. They also reflect patterns in those leaving and joining the workforce and the impact this has on average experience and pay levels, and they reflect patterns in non-basic earnings such as overtime which can fluctuate.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the cost of training a student midwife is paid by (a) the student, (b) his Department and (c) other sources.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
In England, the initial cost of training a midwife is paid by the Government. Part of this is in the form of student loan outlay, which the student accesses for tuition fees and maintenance loans from the Student Loans Company.
The following table shows indicative Government costs for each year of training a midwife who lives outside of London and away from home. It shows the maximum possible amount of each payment type available. Midwifery courses typically last three years.
Additional funding to students may also be available through the Student Loans Company and the Learning Support Fund. This is available to those with adult and child dependants, and for those in exceptional hardship. They may also be eligible for reimbursement of additional travel costs to attend clinical placements.
The amount shown in the table is paid by the Department directly to hospital trusts for a student’s clinical placement.
The amount paid back by the student depends on how much they earn during their career. If the loan is not fully repaid after 30 years it is written off. For example, once a student enters the workforce they pay their loans back at a rate of 9% of their earnings over the repayment threshold of £25,000. This equates to £15 a month for a student earning £27,000 a year.
Systems in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are the responsibilities of the devolved administrations in each of those countries.
2018/19 Indicative cost to the Government of training a midwife for each year of their training
Payment type | Cost | Paid by |
Costs of training | ||
Tuition fee loan to the university | £9,250 | Initially by Student Loans Company. Paid back by the student over time depending on earnings. |
Clinical placement funding to the placement provider | £1,383 + Market Forces Factor | Department of Health and Social Care |
Additional costs for living support | ||
Maintenance loan to the student | £8,700 | Initially by Student Loans Company. Paid back by the student over time depending on earnings. |
Long courses loan to the student | £1,116 | |
Notes:
- Based on a student who lives away from their parents.
- Based on a student who lives outside of London and is eligible for the maximum amount of maintenance allowance available.
- Based on a student on a 42-week course, of which 20 weeks are on clinical placement.
- Placement funding includes Market Forces Factor (MFF). The MFF compensates for difference in the cost of providing training in different parts of the country.
Sources:
Tuition fee loan:
Maintenance loan:
Long courses loan:
Clinical placement funding: