Westminster support staff go on strike over missed pay

Government department workers say they have been forced to rely on food banks

Outsourced workers who clean civil servants' desks and toilets have begun a four-day strike after missed payments and low pay left them living in poverty and forced them to turn to food banks set up inside the business department.

Baked beans, tins of tuna and potatoes from boxes set up on every floor of the department's headquarters at One Victoria Street, Westminster - including outside the office of the business secretary, Greg Clark - were circulated among cleaners and security guards in the offices every day last week.