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Departmental Cleaning

Mr. Wallace: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which companies have contracts for cleaning his Department’s premises, broken down by building. [73670]

Mr. Byrne: This information is not held centrally. Cleaning most of the Department’s premises is contracted out, the main exception being the prison estate where cleaning is generally the responsibility of inmates. Central records of cleaning contracts are not held. The companies listed at annex A have significant contracts for cleaning Home Office premises, either direct with the Home Office or as subcontractors. This information is not available broken down by building and excludes some specialist and smaller contractors and subcontractors.

Annex A: Cleaning contractor (in alphabetical order)

Cambridge Industrial and Commercial Cleaners Ltd.

Carylse Cleaning and Support Services

Ecovert FM Ltd.

IES Environmental Solutions Ltd.

ISS Facilities Services Ltd.

Lancaster Office Cleaning

Mitie Cleaning Services

Monthind Ltd.

Ideal Cleaning Services

Office Cleaning Services

PRP Decontamination Ltd.

Rentokil Initial UK Cleaning

Tech Clean Services Ltd.

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Departmental Staff

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the total cost was of (a) staff away days and (b) staff team building exercises in his Department in each of the last three years. [68968]

Mr. Byrne: Information is not collected centrally on the cost of staff away days and team building exercises in the Department.

Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the (a) sickness and (b) staff turnover rates were in (i) the Immigration and Nationality Directorate and (ii) the National Asylum Support Service in each year since 2001. [75242]

Mr. Byrne: The rates for sickness absence for both IND as a whole and the National Asylum Support Service (NASS), as recorded on the central computer database, are provided in Table 1. The staff turnover rate for IND is provided in Table 2.

Table 1: Sickness absence rates
	IND Sickness (percentage)	NASS Sickness (percentage)
2005	4.51	5.16
2004	4.66	5.69
2003	4.50	5.41
2002	4.41	4.64
2001	4.15	4.93
Notes: This percentage rate is calculated from the number of working days lost per person against possible working days in the year.

Table 2: Turnover Rates for IND
	IND turnover (percentage)
2005	5.98
2004	5.28
2003	5.04
2002	6.01
2001	12.63
Note: The figure for 2005 does not include staff leaving IND to go to posts in the central Home Office.

Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) whole-time equivalent and (b) temporary staff there are in (i) the Immigration and Nationality Directorate and (ii) the National Asylum Support Service in each (A) region and (B) country; and how many there were in each category in each year since 2001. [75243]

Mr. Byrne: The figures for (a) whole-time equivalent staff and (b) temporary staff in IND and the National Asylum Support Service (NASS), as at 31 March in each year, are provided in the table attached. These are provided by region from 2003 for permanent staff and from 2005 for temporary staff. Detailed figures for 2001 and 2002 and the requested breakdown by county are not available.

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IND
	2003		2004		2004		2006
	FTE	Temp staff	FTE	Temp staff	FTE	Temp staff	FTE	Temp staff
Croydon	5190	—	5463	—	4987	891	5142	1164
Eastern	390	—	430	—	321	12	336	36
Midlands	255	—	386	—	353	21	442	33
North East	983	—	1390	—	1845	89	1942	0
North West	1373	—	1580	—	1753	73	1824	124
Scotland	166	—	200	—	253	7	260	20
South East excluding Croydon	3308	—	4019	—	3591	78	3740	64
South West	90	—	112	—	56	1	101	4
Wales	44	—	77	—	92	4	90	5
London	834	—	814	—	1355	207	1331	89
Northern Ireland	11	—	12	—	13	1	15	5
Overseas	—	—	—	—	18	0	49	2
Other	—	—	—	—	50	48	7	184
Total	12644	1457	14483	1220	14687	1432	15279	1730

NASS
	2003		2004		2004		2006
	FTE	Temp staff	FTE	Temp staff	FTE	Temp staff	FTE	Temp staff
Croydon	706	—	661	—	599	157	441	167
Eastern	0	—	29	—	27	0	23	4
Midlands	4	—	37	—	44	10	82	4
North East	10	—	9	—	93	4	104	8
North West	6	—	44	—	33	34	65	10
Scotland	1	—	32	—	2	33	37	2
South East excluding Croydon	0	—	22	—	28	1	33	1
South West	2	—	18	—	2	8	24	0
Wales	2	—	24	—	11	18	20	0
London		—	31	—	20	2	6	2
Northern Ireland	—	—	—	—	0	0	1	0
Overseas	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
Other	—	—	—	—	4	2	1	1
Total	731	372	907	302	863	269	837	198

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