HC Deb 21 July 1972 vol 841 cc196-7W
Mr. Lomas

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will seek to amend his contract with the Exclusive Office Cleaning Company, so that cleaners on night work at his Department receive a basic wage of more than £14.25 a week.

Mr. Eyre

I have no means of increasing the wages paid under this contract. Cleaning contracts are based on price for the services and not on the number of cleaners or rates of pay: like all other contracts let by my Department they include in the conditions a requirement that the contractor observe the fair wages Resolution passed by the House of Commons on 14th October, 1946. The company denied earlier in the year an allegation that its wage rates do not comply with the Resolution, and my Department referred the matter to the Department of Employment.