Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the hourly pay-rate is for his Department's cleaning staff.
Cleaning services in buildings managed by the Department for Communities and Local Government are outsourced under a facilities management contract. Suppliers are responsible for setting rates of pay for their staff and rates for cleaners vary dependent on location and market rates. They have informed the department that they currently pay, as a minimum, the National Living Wage for cleaning the department's buildings.