Royal Palace Cleaners And The London Living Wage (EDM1696)

Royal Palace Cleaners And The London Living Wage

EDM number 1696 in 2010-12, proposed by John McDonnell on 31/03/2011.
Categorised under the topics of Crown, Employment and Incomes and poverty.

That this House notes that the Royal Family currently receive 30 million annually from the public purse, in part for the cleaning of the occupied Royal Palaces which include Buckingham Palace, St James' Palace and Buckingham Palace Mews; further notes that two cleaning companies, KGB and Greenzone, contracted to clean the occupied Royal Palaces pay cleaners 6.45 an hour, significantlyless than the London Living Wage of 7.85, endorsed by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson and now paid to cleaners working on the Parliamentary estate after a concerted campaign supported by hon. Members and trade unions; and calls on the Royal Household to commit to ensuring that the companies contracted to clean the occupied Royal Palaces pay their cleaning staff the London Living Wage.

This motion has been signed by a total of 15 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
John McDonnell	31/03/2011	Hayes and Harlington	Labour	Proposed
Mike Hancock	05/04/2011	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Paul Flynn	26/04/2011	Newport West	Labour	Seconded
Yasmin Qureshi	26/04/2011	Bolton South East	Labour	Seconded
Alan Meale	26/04/2011	Mansfield	Labour	Seconded
John Leech	27/04/2011	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
John Hemming	03/05/2011	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Cryer	04/05/2011	Leyton and Wanstead	Labour	Signed
Jim McGovern	17/05/2011	Dundee West	Labour	Signed
Mike Wood	07/06/2011	Batley and Spen	Labour	Signed
Mike Gapes	09/06/2011	Ilford South	Labour	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	11/07/2011	Dwyfor Meirionnydd	Plaid Cymru	Signed
George Mudie	14/07/2011	Leeds East	Labour	Signed
Caroline Lucas	05/09/2011	Brighton, Pavilion	Green	Signed
Joan Ruddock	09/11/2011	Lewisham, Deptford	Labour	Signed

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