Question follow-through · 4166

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to align (a) pay, (b) terms and (c) conditions of facilities management employees contracted to his Department by OCS with those of comparable directly-employed staff.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 4 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 9 Sept 2024
Answer: 11 Sept 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to align (a) pay, (b) terms and (c) conditions of facilities management employees contracted to his Department by OCS with those of comparable directly-employed staff.
9 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Sept 2024
Answer published
Pay, T&C of OCS employees is managed by OCS. On all GPA Facilities Management contracts, we have a requirement for the payment of the Real Living Wage and London Living Wage.

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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