Holyrood's £100,000 window cleaning bill

The Scottish Parliament is spending around £100,000 a year on cleaning its windows and the total bill for interior and exterior cleaning of the controversial Holyrood building is approaching £500,000. Window cleaning is expensive because of the awkward angle of many of the windows on the £414 million building, which means abseilers have to be brought in for the job according to the Scotsman News.
The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body figures shows window cleaning cost £108,671 last year and has cost a further £87,279 so far this year.

A parliament spokesman said: "Holyrood is an award-winning building of individual and iconic design and its maintenance requirements are those associated with running a landmark building."