HC Deb 13 November 1991 vol 198 cc540-1W
Mr. Gould

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consideration has been given to the security implications of the contracting out of the management of the royal parks for those public buildings and royal palaces under the protection of the Metropolitan police.

Mr. Heseltine

I have been asked to reply.

The security implications for the royal palaces, public buildings and MoD property of contracting out the garden and landscape maintenance work in the royal parks are considered in the same way as they are whenever a contractor's staff undertakes work in such buildings or their gardens.