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1507114

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	Parliament: Cleaning Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Common Commission, what the level of pay has been for all Parliamentary cleaning staff in each of the financial years from 2018 to 2022; and whether all Parliamentary cleaning staff are paid the London Living Wage.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	52034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2022 answer text <p>The House of Commons employs a team of part-time Heritage and Book Cleaners (Pay Band E2) in our Office Service Delivery team. Full-time salaries (based upon 36 hours net per week, excluding breaks) and hourly pay rates since April 2018 are shown in the table below:</p><p /><p>Cleaners (Band E2)</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br> Date</p></td><td><p><br> Salary (Full-Time)</p></td><td><p><br> Hourly Rate</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Apr 18</p></td><td><p><br> 19,766</p></td><td><p><br> 10.56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Sep 18</p></td><td><p><br> 20,161</p></td><td><p><br> 10.77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Apr 19</p></td><td><p><br> 20,766</p></td><td><p><br> 11.09</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Apr 20</p></td><td><p><br> 21,389</p></td><td><p><br> 11.43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Apr 21</p></td><td><p><br> 21,639</p></td><td><p><br> 11.56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Apr 22</p></td><td><p><br> 21,804</p></td><td><p><br> 11.65</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p /><p>As part of an overall 5% pay award from April 2022, Cleaners (E2) received a one-off non-consolidated pensionable payment of £916.96 (pro-rata part time staff).</p><p>In addition, we employ Cleaning Supervisors (Pay Band E1). Full-time salaries and hourly pay rates since April 2019 are shown below:</p><p> </p><p><br>Cleaning Supervisors (Band E1)</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br> Date</p></td><td><p><br> Salary (Full-Time)</p></td><td><p><br> Hourly Rate</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Apr 18</p></td><td><p><br> 20,606</p></td><td><p><br> 11.01</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Sep 18</p></td><td><p><br> 21,018</p></td><td><p><br> 11.23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Apr 19</p></td><td><p><br> 21,649</p></td><td><p><br> 11.56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Apr 20</p></td><td><p><br> 22,298</p></td><td><p><br> 11.91</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Apr 21</p></td><td><p><br> 22,548</p></td><td><p><br> 12.04</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Apr 22</p></td><td><p><br> 22,731</p></td><td><p><br> 12.14</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><br>As part of an overall 5% pay award from April 2022, Cleaning Supervisors (E1) received a one-off non-consolidated pensionable payment of £944.40 (pro-rata part time staff).</p><p>The House of Commons is accredited by Citizens UK as a London Living Wage Employer and all Cleaners employed by the House of Commons are paid, at least, the London Living Wage. The terms of our accreditation licence also requires that contractors and sub-contractors with dedicated staff who are based on parliamentary premises are paying those staff at least the London Living Wage.</p><p>We can confirm that to our knowledge, all dedicated staff are being paid either the London Living Wage or the UK Living Wage. However, we do not hold details of the earnings of people who are not directly employed by the House of Commons. Contracts with service partners require the payment of the London Living Wage or the UK Living Wage as appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 17/10/2022 21:45:33 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1503500

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	Members: Security
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether the Commission plays a role in the (a) award and (b) monitoring of the contract with ADT for the security of hon. Members.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	45066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The House of Commons Commission has high level oversight of financial management and procurement but delegates the procurement and management of individual contracts to the relevant House officials.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The contract for Members Security Services was awarded in September 2021 following a robust procurement process managed in strict accordance with Public Contracts Regulations 2015. MPs’ interests were represented during the evaluation process by members of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) and the Director of the Member Services Team.</p><p> </p><p>The contract is currently managed by the Members’ Security Support Service (MSSS) in the Parliamentary Security Department. MSSS monitors the contract through regular review meetings with the contractor company, at which colleagues from IPSA and PPCS (Parliamentary Procurement &amp; Commercial Service) are in attendance.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 20/09/2022 11:26:32 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1503797

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
answering dept id	90
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
hansard heading	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, pursuant to Named Day Question 33681 on Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Written Questions tabled by the hon. Member for Warley on 11 July 2022 for written answer on 14 July 2022, when he plans to answer Question 6697 tabled by the hon. Member for Warley on 23 May 2022.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	45520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>The delay in providing responses to Questions 6697, 33681, 42245 and 45520 was due to an administrative error in the Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 24/10/2022 15:59:43 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1504379

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	House of Commons: Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, what steps the House authorities are taking to reduce (a) temperature settings on the estate and (b) energy use via other means.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	45709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>(a) Where possible Parliament follows Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) guidelines for temperature standards in offices to ensure a comfortable working environment. When rooms have temperature controls for the user, there is a small threshold of which temperature can be raised or lowered to ensure rooms are not over cooled/heated.</p><p>There are many differing levels of temperature control across the parliamentary estate, with some areas having no temperature control at all.</p><p>We review the setpoints for heating and cooling regularly.</p><p>(b) Parliamentary authorities take energy efficiency very seriously as part of its commitment to reducing its environmental impacts. Parliament has reduced its electricity consumption by 16.8% and gas consumption by 25.3% since 2008/09.</p><p>The Building Management System has been upgraded recently to enable better control of the building services, such as resetting manual temperature changes every night to a CIBSE recommended setpoint.</p><p>The Environmental Sustainability Team monitor and report performance energy and water use monthly, and report annually in the sustainability section of the Commission Annual Report.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 20/09/2022 11:31:04 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1491396

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
answering dept id	90
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
hansard heading	Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, how much the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if he will publish a breakdown of the (a) amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) name of each consultancy contracted and (c) specific matters on which they were consulted.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Neale Hanvey
uin	42245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>Due to a change in IPSA’s financial systems, it is technically highly difficult for IPSA to provide the information in the detail requested for the previous five years. In its annual accounts, however, IPSA have presented annual expenditure on consultancy, including £55k for 2017-18 (Human Resources advice, reviews and surveys: £11,000, Information Technology projects: £37,000, and IPSA Online project: £7,000). For 2018-19, the figure was £315k (Human Resources advice, reviews and surveys: £18,000, Implementation of GDPR legislation: £40,000, Information Technology projects: £44,000, and IPSA Online project: £213,000). For 2019-20, the figure was £300k (Organisational improvements for the Chief Executive’s Office: £43,000, System maintenance and continuous improvement programme: £182,000, Organisational redesign by the HR department: £60,000, Business Support to MP Support and general professional advice: £15,000). For 2020-21, the figure was £530k (Organisational redesign work: £206,000, Business and technical support and general professional advice: £200,000, System maintenance and continuous improvement programme: £123,000, and Professional Advice to Compliance Office: £1,000). For 2021-22, the figure was £263k (Organisational redesign work: £161,000, Business and technical support and general professional advice: £39,000, System maintenance and continuous improvement programme: £56,000, and Governance: £7,000).</p><p>The delay in providing a response to this Question was due to an administrative error in the Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 24/10/2022 16:00:49 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
tabling member	4782 label Biography information for Neale Hanvey

1491131

registered interest
date	20/07/2022
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	House of Commons: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, how much the corporate officer of the House of Commons has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if he will publish a breakdown of the (a) amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) name of each consultancy contracted and (c) specific matters on which they were consulted.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	40943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>The House has spent the following amounts on external consultants in each of the last five financial years:</p><p>FY 2017/18 - £1,024,000<br>FY 2018/19 - £1,360,000<br>FY 2019/20 - £2,530,000<br>FY 2020/21 - £3,701,000<br>FY 2021/22 - £3,232,000</p><p>The Clerk has implemented a policy governing the use of consultants including requirements for justification of the use of consultants and maximum daily rates.</p><p>The total spend on consultancy per year is consistent with analysis provided in the published House of Commons Administration Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p>The information has been compiled in the table attached showing the relevant and requested data over the last five financial years.</p><p>a) Amount paid to each consultancy contracted is provided in ‘Amount paid’ columns for each year</p><p>b) Name of each consultancy contracted is provided in ‘Consultants’ column</p><p>c) Specific matters on which they were consulted is provided in ‘Consultation matters’ columns for each year.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 05/09/2022 16:52:09 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker attachment 1 file name Amount-spent-on-consultancies-in-past-five-years.xlsx title Amount spent on consultancies
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1489622

registered interest
date	15/07/2022
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	Palace of Westminster: Public Statues
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many statues and busts of (a) former hon. Members and (b) other people of note were on display in the Palace of Westminster as at July 2022.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	37510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>There are 184 statues and busts from the Parliamentary Art Collection on display within the Commons areas of the Palace of Westminster. Of this number, 62 portray former Members, and 122 portray other people of note.</p><p>Within the Lords areas, there are 216 statues and busts on display. 42 of those portray former Members, 174 other people of note.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 21/07/2022 09:48:48 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1489625

registered interest
date	15/07/2022
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	Palace of Westminster: Public Statues
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, what the cost was of (a) maintaining, (b) repairing and (c) cleaning statues and busts of (a) former hon. Members and (b) other people of note on display in the Palace of Westminster in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	37511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>Maintenance, repair and cleaning work has continued consistently across the last five years. Collections care and maintenance is a bicameral function and the Commons share across all statues and busts in the Palace is as follows. A small proportion of these costs relates to work not in the Palace or on other objects.</p><p><strong>2017<br></strong>Maintenance and cleaning: £5240<br>Repair: £1066</p><p><strong>2018<br></strong>Maintenance and cleaning: £6497<br>Repair: £2120</p><p><strong>2019<br></strong>Maintenance and cleaning: £5604<br>Repair: £689</p><p><strong>2020<br></strong>Maintenance and cleaning: £3240<br>Repair: £555</p><p><strong>2021<br></strong>Maintenance and cleaning: £6966<br>Repair: £2308</p><p><strong>2022<br></strong>Maintenance and cleaning: £1080<br>Repair: £225</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 21/07/2022 12:05:28 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1487967

registered interest
date	11/07/2022
answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
answering dept id	90
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
hansard heading	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, when a response will be received to Question 6697 tabled by the hon. Member for Warley on 23 May 2022.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	33681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>The delay in providing responses to Questions 6697, 33681, 42245 and 45520 was due to an administrative error in the Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 24/10/2022 15:58:50 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1486884

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	Members' Interests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, with reference to the Committee on Standards' report entitled, Review of the Code of Conduct: proposals for consultation, published on 29 November 2021 and its report entitled, New Code of Conduct and Guide to the Rules: promoting appropriate values, attitudes and behaviour in Parliament, published on 24 May 2022, what steps the Commission is taking to help ensure that the Register of Members' Financial Interests is published in more searchable and analysable formats.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	31913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>Following the report from the Committee on Standards, Parliamentary Digital Service and the Registry Office established a project team to develop and deliver fully searchable registers and a new online interface for Members to register their interests. The initial phases of the project have been completed. The project board that oversees this work will now make proposals to the House authorities on the delivery of this work.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 11/07/2022 17:13:41 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden