Catherine West – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Catherine West on 2016-02-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the rate of pay is for cleaners in her Department.

Mr Desmond Swayne

DFID has 2 headquarters in the UK, one in Whitehall and one in East Kilbride. The cleaning of both headquarter buildings is contracted out to MITIE Facilities Management. MITIE pay the cleaning staff the National Living wage in East Kilbride and the London Living wage in Whitehall.