Frank Field – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2016-07-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many people working for her Department or its executive agencies on a (a) directly employed, (b) agency or (c) outsourced basis are paid less than the living wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation; and how many of those people are employed on zero-hours contracts.

Rory Stewart

Direct employees

There are no staff directly employed by DFID who are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.

Workers in agencies which report to DFID

There are no workers in agencies which report to DFID who are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.

Outsourced workers

We encourage outsource partners to pay the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation. None of our contracted workers are paid less than the National Living Wage and London Living Wage.