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Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Food: Parliament (21 Nov 2022)

Charles Walker: Parliament provides a range of catering services to Members, House staff, journalists and a large number of visitors. As a workplace this includes staff canteens that are available for people who work in Parliament. The services aren’t directly subsidised, but they unavoidably come at a cost due to the irregular hours that Parliament works. The service has a commitment to continuously seek...

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Speaker's Counsel: Operating Costs (18 Nov 2022)

Charles Walker: The spend on the Office of Speaker’s Counsel for the financial year 2021/22 was £1.85m. The Office of Speaker’s Counsel provides legal advice to the Speaker, the Clerk and all departments of the House of Commons, as well as managing all litigation involving the Commission, the Corporate Officer or the Speaker. It also provides advice to Select Committees of the House.

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Palace of Westminster: Waste Disposal (16 Nov 2022)

Charles Walker: There have been no additional bins placed in men’s toilets. However, since May 2021 there has been an increase of 64 nappy bins in accessible toilets across the Estate (Lords/Commons).

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Portcullis House (16 Nov 2022)

Charles Walker: The trees in Portcullis House were removed as they had become root bound, and as a result were no longer viable. House teams are developing plans for the space in the Portcullis House atrium now the trees have been removed. The use of the space has been raised with the Administration Committee and it discussed the matter on 31 October. The Committee will be consulted later this year on the...

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Members: Security (15 Nov 2022)

Charles Walker: Security of Members away from the parliamentary estate is a top priority for the Parliamentary Security Department (PSD). Contracts for Members’ security services are managed by PSD, who work with PPCS (Parliamentary Procurement & Commercial Service) to closely monitor performance. The key performance indicators and service level agreements are commercially sensitive with the companies that...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Diabetes and Eating Disorders ( 3 Nov 2022)

Charles Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 13 April 2022 to Question 140404 on Diabetes and Eating Disorders, where the five additional pilot sites areas will be; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority ( 3 Nov 2022)

Charles Walker: Average attendance at the London office has been monitered carefully be IPSA and is calculated by working days in the calender month (and is only based on current office-based staffing numbers (66)). This does not, however, include a number of IPSA people based on home-base contracts who make regular journeys into the office, particularly when based a short distance from the London region. It...

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Select Committees: Legal Opinion ( 1 Nov 2022)

Charles Walker: All Select Committees have access to internal legal advice from the Office of Speaker’s Counsel. In the event that external advice is sought, the Office of Speaker’s Counsel will be consulted before external lawyers are appointed. Only certain committees have power to appoint legal advisers, but Committees may appoint legally qualified persons as Specialist Advisers.

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Committee of Privileges: Legal Costs ( 1 Nov 2022)

Charles Walker: Internal legal advice is provided by salaried members of the Office of Speaker’s Counsel. No additional resources have been required in order to support this inquiry, which has been covered by the ordinary costs of running that Office. External legal advice has been provided to the Committee by Sir Ernest Ryder KC, at the request of the Committee. The total cost of this advice to date has...

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Sir Ernest Ryder ( 1 Nov 2022)

Charles Walker: The amounts paid will lag the amounts due. The payments due to Sir Ernest Ryder KC for work in each of the following months are as follows: In respect of the Committee on Standards December 2021 £1050 January 2022 £4550 February 2022 £6300 March 2022 £700 In respect of the Committee of Privileges June 2022 £1750 July 2022 £7000 August 2022 £3850 September 2022 £5250

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Recall of MPs Act 2015: Legal Costs ( 1 Nov 2022)

Charles Walker: Internal legal advice is provided by the Office of Speaker’s Counsel, staffed by salaried members of the House service, and has been provided as part of their ordinary work. No additional resources have been required in order to advise the House on the Recall of MPs Act 2015. The cost of external legal advice on that Act in the past 12 months has been £2,700 plus VAT.

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Committee of Privileges: Legal Opinion ( 1 Nov 2022)

Charles Walker: The hon. Member for Rhondda sent a letter to Mr Speaker enclosing a copy of a legal Opinion on 19 July 2022. There was no other correspondence concerning this matter. The letter and Opinion will not be placed in the Library in order to protect the confidentiality of Members’ correspondence with the Speaker.

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Temple Garden Chambers ( 1 Nov 2022)

Charles Walker: The value of the procurement fell below the threshold for any formal procurement process. Andrew O’Connor KC was selected by Speaker’s Counsel following consultation with colleagues. He was first approached on 27 May 2022, and was instructed orally in conference with Speaker’s Counsel on 8 June 2022. The contract was entered into on Bar Standards Board standard contractual terms.

Written Answers — Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority ( 1 Nov 2022)

Charles Walker: Before moving to its current location in March 2019, IPSA consided sites in Milton Keynes and Croydon, as well as Stratford and Canary Wharf. At that time, before the Covid-19 pandemic, a central London presence was deemed best placed to offer support to MPs and enable employees working from the office to attend meetings in Parliament at short notice. Going forward, IPSA will once again...

Written Answers — Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Consultants (24 Oct 2022)

Charles Walker: Due to a change in IPSA’s financial systems, it is technically highly difficult for IPSA to provide the information in the detail requested for the previous five years. In its annual accounts, however, IPSA have presented annual expenditure on consultancy, including £55k for 2017-18 (Human Resources advice, reviews and surveys: £11,000, Information Technology projects: £37,000, and IPSA...

Written Answers — Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Written Questions (24 Oct 2022)

Charles Walker: The delay in providing responses to Questions 6697, 33681, 42245 and 45520 was due to an administrative error in the Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.

Written Answers — Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Written Questions (24 Oct 2022)

Charles Walker: The delay in providing responses to Questions 6697, 33681, 42245 and 45520 was due to an administrative error in the Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.

Written Answers — Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (24 Oct 2022)

Charles Walker: IPSA incurred costs of 508k on rent, rates, and service charges in the 2020-21 financial year. In 2021-22, this figure was 367k. IPSA currently has 97 contracted employees, of which 68% (66) are on office-based contracts and (32%) 31 are on home-based contracts. The difficult times brought about by the pandemic brought forward IPSA’s plans to create a more representative national...

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Parliament: Cleaning Services (17 Oct 2022)

Charles Walker: The House of Commons employs a team of part-time Heritage and Book Cleaners (Pay Band E2) in our Office Service Delivery team. Full-time salaries (based upon 36 hours net per week, excluding breaks) and hourly pay rates since April 2018 are shown in the table below: Cleaners (Band E2) Date Salary (Full-Time) Hourly Rate Apr 18 19,766 10.56 Sep 18 20,161 10.77 ...

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: House of Commons: Energy (20 Sep 2022)

Charles Walker: (a) Where possible Parliament follows Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) guidelines for temperature standards in offices to ensure a comfortable working environment. When rooms have temperature controls for the user, there is a small threshold of which temperature can be raised or lowered to ensure rooms are not over cooled/heated. There are many differing levels of...


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