§ Mr. VazTo ask the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, representing the House of Commons Commission, if he will provide a breakdown by ethnicity and grade of employees of the House of Commons Commission. [79053]
§ Mr. KirkwoodEmployees of the House of Commons Commission are asked to supply information about their ethnic origin on a voluntary basis. Not all choose to reply, so our database is incomplete.
The ethnic origins of those staff who have chosen to supply information are set out in the table. In order to preserve confidentiality, we have grouped together some categories which would otherwise have contained fewer than five people.
Letter from John C. Locke to Mr. James Gray, dated April 1999:
The Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office, Peter Kilfoyle, has asked me as Chief Executive of Property Advisers to the Civil Estate (PACE) to respond to your Parliamentary Question about the demolition of 2 Marsham Street.2 Marsham Street is being considered by a major Government Department as temporary decant space in a PFI scheme whilst its premises are being refurbished. The current position is that the decision on the re-use of the building has been delayed because the assessment of the PFI bids which will form the basis of Departmental funding for the programme of works is taking longer than expected. Current thinking is that the evaluation will be completed by September 1999, but re-use is integral to all the bids being considered.If re-use of 2 Marsham Street cannot be justified in Exchequer terms then the demolition process will be restarted and PACE will seek Ministerial approval to place the contract for demolition. The work is expected to take some 18 months following the letting of a contract.