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<p>The House of Lords Administration directly employs 572 staff (including part-time
staff); a small number of these staff may not necessarily work all the time on the
estate.</p><p> </p><p>The number of staff employed indirectly through third parties
is not centrally counted but the two Houses have a contract for approximately 180
office and property service staff employed through an agency (whose work is not necessarily
confined to the Lords estate) and the Catering and Retail Services of the House of
Lords employed 321 agency staff in 2014 for a total of 16,732 hours to supplement
their core workforce.</p><p> </p><p>The above figures do not include shared services
and joint departments where the House of Commons is responsible for their employment,
such as Parliamentary ICT and the Parliamentary Estates Directorate.</p><p> </p><p>The
House also employs, from time-to-time, consultant staff.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Presently
there are no plans to change the number of staff employed indirectly through third
parties.</p>
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