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<p>Cleaning services, security guarding services and catering services across the
department are mostly outsourced. Suppliers are responsible for setting rates of pay
for their staff and rates vary dependent on their age, location and market rates.
All suppliers are required to pay, as a minimum, either the National Minimum Wage
or the National Living Wage. The rates set by government for the National Minimum
Wage and the National Living Wage are to rise in April 2019.</p><p>Security guards
who are Home Office employees receive the appropriate spot rate for their grade, plus
shift and unsocial hours payments where applicable. All Home Office reward packages
are in compliance with the National Minimum Wage Act.</p>
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