§ Mr. Eadieasked the Secretary of State for Employment what has been the growth of cleaning costs to Government Departments over the last five years; and what growth there has been of sub-contracting of office cleaning.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerI have been asked to reply.
The sum of the provisions made in Estimates 1969–70 for the cleaning of Government Departments by contract and for the salaries only—that is, excluding overheads—of cleaners directly employed to clean Government offices was some £6.2 million. This is expected to rise to some £8.8 million in the 1973–74 Estimates, subject to Parliament's
Great Britain Scotland Column (2) as percentage of Column (1) Manufacturing units employing (1) (2) 11–24 employees … … … … 23,581 1,817 7.7 25–99 employees … … … … 19,566 1,598 8.2 100–499 employees … … … … 10,834 922 8.5 500–999 employees … … … … 1,654 145 8.8 1,000–1,999 employees … … … … 755 73 9.7 2,000 or more employees … … … … 422 42 10.0 The number of manufacturing units—that is, separate factories—are those recorded on the Business Statistics Office's Register at November 1972. The figures of employment are those reported in the Census of Production for 1970.