§ Mr. Ashtonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether, when giving out contracts to cleaning contractors for work on her Department's premises, she will insist on conditions of wages, overtime, holiday pay and trade union recruitment facilities no less favourable than those given to similar maintenance workers actually employed by her Department.
§ Mr. Ashtonasked the Minister of State for Defence whether, when giving out contracts to cleaning contractors for work on his Department's premises, he will insist on conditions of wages, hours, overtime, holiday pay and trade union recruitment facilities no less favourable than those given to similar maintenance workers actually employed by his Department.
§ Mr. Ashtonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, when giving out contracts to cleaning contractors for work on his Department's premises, he will insist on conditions of wages, hours, overtime, holiday pay and trade union recruitment facilities no less favourable than those given to similar maintenance workers actually employed by his Department.
§ Mr. Ashtonasked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether, when giving out contracts to cleaning contractors for work on his Department's premises, he will insist on conditions of wages, hours, overtime, holiday pay and trade union recruitment facilities no less favourable than those given to similar maintenance workers actually employed by his Department.
§ Mr. Ashtonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether, when giving out contracts to cleaning contractors for work on his Department's premises, he will insist on conditions of wages, hours, overtime, holiday pay and trade union recruitment 299W facilities no less favourable than those given to similar maintenance workers actually employed by his Department.
§ Mr. Ashtonasked the Secretary of State for Wales whether, when giving out contracts to cleaning contractors for work on his Department's premises, he will insist on conditions of wages, hours, overtime, holiday pay and trade union recruitment facilities no less favourable than those given to similar maintenance workers actually employed by his Department.
§ Mr. Ashtonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether, when giving out contracts to cleaning contractors for work on his Department's premises, he will insist on conditions of wages, hours, overtime, holiday pay and trade union recruitment facilities no less favourable than those given to similar maintenance workers actually employed by his Department.
§ Mr. Ashtonasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether, when giving out contracts to cleaning contractors for work on his Department's premises, he will insist on conditions of wages, hours, overtime, holiday pay and trade union recruitment facilities no less favourable than those given to similar maintenance workers actually employed by his Department.
§ Mr. Ashtonasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether, when giving out contracts to cleaning contractors for work on his Department's premises, he will insist on conditions of wages, hours, overtime, holiday pay and trade union recruitment facilities no less favourable than those given to similar maintenance workers actually employed by his Department.
§ Mr. Ashtonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether, when giving out contracts to cleaning contractors for work on his Department's premises, he will insist on conditions of wages, hours, overtime, holiday pay and trade union recruitment facilities no less favourable than those given to similar maintenance workers actually employed by his Department.
§ Mr. Ashtonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, when giving out contracts to cleaning contractors for work 300W on his Department's premises, he will insist on conditions of wages, hours, overtime, holiday pay and trade union recruitment facilities no less favourable than those given to similar maintenance workers actually employed by his Department.
§ Mr. Ashtonasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether, when giving out contracts to cleaning contractors for work on his Department's premises, he will insist on conditions of wages, hours, overtime, holiday pay and trade union recruitment facilities no less favourable than those given to similar maintenance workers actually employed by his Department.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerI have been asked to reply.
All contracts for cleaning entered into by the Government require compliance with the Fair Wages Resolution passed by the House of Commons on 14th October, 1946, which lays upon the contractor an obligation relative to rates of wages, hours and conditions of service and membership of trade unions. To insist upon wages and conditions no less favourable than those of comparable civil servants would seem to introduce a factor into the negotiations of local rates of pay and conditions beyond those envisaged in the Fair Wages Resolution, and would in any event be incompatible with the principle of "fair comparisons" on which Civil Service pay determination is itself based.