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	date	10/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Olympic Games 2012: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the procurement contract award process for London 2012 and the Olympic Games.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	262278
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>Public procurement for London 2012 was conducted by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA, an arm's length body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport until its dissolution in 2014).</p><p> </p><p>ODA procurement processes were subject to the assurance processes laid out in their Assurance Framework (available online via the archived &quot;Learning Legacy&quot; website at <a href="http://learninglegacy.independent.gov.uk/" target="_blank">http://learninglegacy.independent.gov.uk</a>) and included reviews by the National Audit Office and Commission for a Sustainable London 2012.</p><p> </p><p>Procurement outcomes (such as size and quality management of contractors) were assessed as part of the Meta-Evaluation of London 2012, conducted by an independent consortium lead by Grant Thornton for the government (available on the GOV.UK website at <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/224145/Report_5_Economy_Evidence_Base_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/224145/Report_5_Economy_Evidence_Base_FINAL.pdf</a>) and the Olympic Games Impact Study (Post-Games Report), conducted by the University of East London for the International Olympic Committee (available on the UEL website at <a href="https://www.uel.ac.uk/research/centre-for-geoinformation-studies/researchareasprojects/ogispostgameslondon2012" target="_blank">https://www.uel.ac.uk/research/centre-for-geoinformation-studies/researchareasprojects/ogispostgameslondon2012</a>).</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 18/06/2019 13:29:32 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1131104

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Olympic Games 2012: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department has taken to tackle potential corruption in the awarding of procurement contracts for London 2012 and the Olympic Games.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	262280
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>The awarding of public procurement contracts for London 2012 and the Olympic Games was undertaken by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), an arm's length body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, from its start-up in 2005 until its dissolution in 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The ODA tackled potential corruption through:</p><p> </p><ul><li>promoting anti-bribery, corruption, fraud policies and campaigns throughout the Games programme, supported by relevant personnel training and senior management appointments focused on fraud.</li><li>having procurement policies and procedures that were subject to the assurance processes laid out in their Assurance Framework (available online via the archived &quot;Learning Legacy&quot; website at http://learninglegacy.independent.gov.uk) and included reviews by the National Audit Office and Commission for a Sustainable London 2012.</li><li>maintaining rigorous and robust internal audit, peer review and commercial close-out processes that subjected the procurement, contract management and final-accounting of all public contracts to the highest levels of scrutiny.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 18/06/2019 13:31:31 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell