Recommendation 7

The House Administrations undertake maintenance works across the parliamentary estate. The Clerks told us maintenance costs totalled approximately £2 million per week, with the House Administrations spending around £100 million a year.13 The sheer quantity of building and maintenance work currently being undertaken was staggering with 4,000 maintenance or reactive maintenance calls a month. Alongside this the House Administrations are managing 42 projects to repair the estate, 27 of which are in the Palace.14 Over recent years projects have included spending £140 million on temporary fire safety improvements and £8 million on temporary sewerage.15