Military Bases: Coronavirus

(asked on 5th October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effect of ESS reducing contracted hours for cleaners at his Department's bases on levels of covid-19 transmission at those bases.


Answered by
Jeremy Quin Portrait
Jeremy Quin
This question was answered on 12th October 2020

The Ministry of Defence maintains a contract with ESS which sets output requirements which are subject to regular assurance. It is the responsibility of ESS to determine the level of staffing required to meet the stipulated outputs.

In line with BEIS guidance on COVID secure ways of working, the Ministry of Defence's Heads of Establishment have been working closely with local contracting teams to establish a clear understanding of the local cleaning priorities.

In circumstances in which Heads of Establishment identify cleaning priorities that could be delivered by the contracted labour source but are additional to the current scope of the contract, there is a well-defined process for them to raise a change request for the extra cleaning resource required.

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