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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

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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