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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

1328269

	registered interest
	date	26/05/2021
	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: Disciplinary Proceedings
	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, for what reason rules on disciplinary action against hon. Members differ between those applied to decisions made by the Independent Experts Panel and those applied to decisions made by the Standards Committee.
	tabling member constituency	Luton North
	tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
	uin	7953
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>The process for a petition under the Recall of MPs Act 2015 is not triggered by a suspension imposed on the recommendation of the Independent Expert Panel. For a recall to be initiated, the sanction must be imposed on the recommendation of the Committee on Standards, or another Committee of the House of Commons concerned with standards of conduct. The Independent Expert Panel is not a Committee of the House of Commons.</p><p>Prior to the establishment of the Panel in June 2020, the House of Commons Commission listened to concerns expressed during a consultation process that a recall mechanism would be detrimental in cases brought under the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme because of the potential implications for the confidentiality of the process and possibility of retrial by media and the public which could affect the willingness of complainants to come forward.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 07/06/2021 18:18:59 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1716927

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2024
	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	Parliamentary Estate: Telephone Systems
	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, for what reason the Polycom phone system malfunctioned on 9 May 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	25405
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>I am sorry that the right hon. Member and all colleagues continue to experience inconvenience in telephony services which are currently below standard. The latest issue with handsets underlines the need for the solution which the Parliamentary Digital Service is implementing later this year.</p><p>Polycom devices need to communicate with an external supplier to register the device and make/receive calls. Each device communicates with one of two external servers. One of the servers experienced issues on Thursday 9 May and any device that attempted to connect to this server was impacted by the outage. Polycom phones communicating with the working server did not experience an outage.</p><p>The first report the Digital Service received of handsets not working was at 12.13pm on Thursday 9 May. The team declared a major incident shortly afterwards and service was restored at 9.46am on 10 May.</p><p>The Voice Programme is upgrading and replacing the existing telephony infrastructure and when implemented, handsets will have 99.999% reliability of connecting.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 15/05/2024 14:11:41 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1401813

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2022
	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: Dismissal
	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 House of Commons employment severance agreements included the use of a non-disclosure agreement in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Basingstoke
	tabling member printed	Mrs Maria Miller
	uin	101661
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>The House’s approach to the use of NDA clauses follows the 2015 Cabinet Office Guidance on Settlement Agreements, Special Severance Payments and Confidentiality Clauses on Termination of Employment. Since January 2015, it was decided that NDA clauses should no longer be included as a matter of course. Each case is considered on its merits.</p><p>The figures for each of the last five years are:</p><p>2021 – nil</p><p>2020 – nil</p><p>2019 – nil</p><p>2018 – 2 agreements with NDAs</p><p>2017 – 6 agreements with NDAs</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 17/01/2022 14:29:32 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker previous answer version 43499 answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	1480 label Biography information for Dame Maria Miller

1654387

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2023
	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	Written Questions
	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 and what proportion of written parliamentary questions have been carded by the Table Office in each of the last 12 months that the House was sitting.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	195144
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2023 answer text <p>The IT programmes used by the Table Office do not separately record the number or proportion of questions that have been carded. The information requested could only be established by going through each of the 62,668 questions tabled in the periods specified, which would incur disproportionate expense. However, the figures for 3 July 2023, given below, are likely to be representative:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Published unamended or with style edits</p></td><td><p>233 (78% of total processed)</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Published having been carded and subsequently discussed with Member/Member’s office</p></td><td><p>28 (9%)</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TOTAL PUBLISHED</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>261</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Carded and not yet resolved/published</p></td><td><p>23 (8%)</p></td><td><p>Of which 5 information readily available, 4 duplicate question, 14 other reason</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Carded and withdrawn</p></td><td><p>12 (4%)</p></td><td><p>Of which 1 information readily available, 5 duplicate question, 6 other reason</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Withdrawn for other reasons</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL PROCESSED</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>298</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Table Office can only put on to the Order Paper questions which comply with the rules of the House. Questions substantially the same as one already tabled are not published. If a question appears to be disorderly the Member is ‘carded’: asked to discuss with the Table Office how the question might be brought within the rules. The rules regarding questions are set out at 3.22 in Erskine May, which is available online: <a href="https://erskinemay.parliament.uk/section/4942/rules-of-order-regarding-form-and-contents-of-questions" target="_blank">Rules of order regarding form and contents of questions - Erskine May - UK Parliament</a></p><p>The Table Office also provides tailored briefing and coaching in drafting questions for Members and their staff.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 04/09/2023 19:07:44 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1665453

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2023
	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	Parliamentary Estate: Buildings
	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 buildings on the parliamentary estate are constructed with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete.
	tabling member constituency	City of Durham
	tabling member printed	Mary Kelly Foy
	uin	203127
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>Completed surveys have identified some elements of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete in the Palace of Westminster. Fifteen other areas are in the process of being assessed, 11 within the Palace and four within other buildings on the parliamentary estate.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 25/10/2023 14:42:08 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker previous answer version 99569 answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4753 label Biography information for Mary Kelly Foy

1378886

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2021
	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	Parliamentary Estate: Coronavirus
	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 confirmed positive covid-19 tests there have been among Parliamentary pass holders who work on the Parliamentary estate for each of the last 10 weeks; and what estimate the House Authorities have made of the number of Parliamentary pass holders who were working on the Parliamentary estate for each of the last 10 weeks.
	tabling member constituency	Basingstoke
	tabling member printed	Mrs Maria Miller
	uin	75837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>Following further review of cases linked to the estate, UKHSA have identified 143 positive cases occurring between the 4th October–16th November. However, due to delays in reporting, additional cases may yet be identified that tested positive between 12th November and 16th November.</p><p>This review identified that over 50% of positive cases had not been reported by members of the Parliamentary community to the Parliamentary test and trace team.</p><p>Data recorded by the House is held solely for the purpose of supporting test and trace and is only recorded for 21 days where an individual notifies us.</p><p>Details on weekly cases are held for the last five weeks only following the UKHSA review. The maximum number of passholders working on the estate for any day in the relevant week are included for the equivalent periods.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Week</p></td><td><p>Positive Cases</p></td><td><p>Maximum daily number of passholders</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5/11 – 11/11</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>4018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>29/10 – 4/11</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>4364</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22/10 – 28/10</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>4398</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15/10 – 21/10</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>4504</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>08/10 – 14/10</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>3158</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/10 – 07/10</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2204</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>24/09 – 30/09</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2108</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>17/09 – 23/09</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>3644</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10/09 – 16/09</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>4280</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>03/09 – 09/09</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>4261</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 19/11/2021 16:32:49 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	1480 label Biography information for Dame Maria Miller

1439632

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2022
	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: Coronavirus
	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 hon. Members have tested positive for covid-19 (a) in the week commencing 7 March 2022 and (b) since 5 January 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Midlothian
	tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
	uin	138092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2022 answer text <p>Following the change in Government guidance, individuals are no longer required to inform their workplace should they test positive. The figures below represent the number of positive cases where an individual has shared their result. The figures provided are for all positive cases, as we do not hold the data per pass category.</p><p>4 – 10 March: 47<br>25 February – 3 March: 11<br>18 – 24 February: 15<br>11 – 17 February: 18</p><p>The numbers below represent the number of validated case numbers, using data held by the UKHSA and the Parliamentary test and trace team.<br></p><p>4 – 10 February: 63<br>28 January – 3 February: 61<br>21 – 27 January: 89<br>14 – 20 January: 68<br>7 – 13 January: 69<br>31 December – 6 January: 110</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 17/03/2022 18:03:36 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1420146

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2022
	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: Coronavirus
	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 hon. Members tested positive for covid-19 (a) in the week commencing 7 February 2022 and (b) since 5 January 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Midlothian
	tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
	uin	119702
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2022 answer text <p>Data is held with respect to the number of positive cases with potential links to the Parliamentary estate but is not broken into passholder groups, such as MPs.</p><p>Cases are considered to have potential links to the estate where a person testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 (by PCR or LFT), has attended the parliamentary estate for work purposes within the week prior to onset of symptoms (or date of positive test), with onset of symptoms (or date of positive test). This does not mean the case is confirmed as definitely being linked to the estate.<br><br></p><ul><li>A total of 349 positive cases have been reported from 5 January to 11 February 2022.</li><li>A total of 27 positive cases have been reported from 7–11 February 2022.</li></ul> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 21/02/2022 23:08:10 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1653126

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2023
	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	Portcullis House: Repairs and Maintenance
	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 incidents there have been relating to (a) leaks, (b) broken panels and (c) structural defects involving the glass atrium roof on Portcullis House in each of the last five years; and if he will provide details of those incidents.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	194196
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>Over the last five years, there have been 12 recorded leaks related to the glass atrium roof: three in 2021, four in 2022, and five in 2023. There have been three breakages: two in 2019 and one in July 2023.</p><p>We are currently reviewing this data as part of the Portcullis House roof project. A report on the glass atrium roof has been commissioned and is due in August 2023.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 20/07/2023 14:14:58 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown