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1660257

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to ensure that all Government contracts include a requirement to pay staff (a) the Living Wage Foundation’s real Living Wage and (b) occupational sick pay.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	199194
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2023 answer text <p>This government is committed to paying properly, which is being addressed through the statutory National Living Wage. This is based on the recommendations of the Low Pay Commission. In April 2023, the National Living Wage increased to £10.42 per hour, an increase of 9.7%. By 2024, the Government has committed that the National Living Wage will reach 66% of median UK earnings.</p><p>Departments are responsible for setting the terms and conditions of employment for their civil servants, in accordance with the rules of the Civil Service Management Code. This includes matters related to sickness absence.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 20/09/2023 10:47:24 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1609394

	registered interest
	date	30/03/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many suppliers to government departments have been excluded from subsequent procurement processes on the grounds of either fraud or corruption.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Adams of Craigielea
	uin	HL7048
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2023 answer text <p>The grounds for the exclusion of bidders from public procurement procedures are set out in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. These rules set out the circumstances in which bidders must, or may, be excluded from a public procurement process.</p><p>In all cases, individual departments and other public sector bodies are responsible for their own decisions on these matters, and will hold their own records. This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 17/04/2023 14:29:10 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	631 label Biography information for Baroness Adams of Craigielea

1604873

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the level of compliance by (a) Government Departments, (b) Executive Agencies and (c) non-departmental public bodies with the guidance set out in Procurement Policy Note 01/22: contracts with suppliers from Russia and Belarus.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	167131
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2023 answer text <p>The illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia has been met with unprecedented global condemnation. The UK is proudly standing shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine and has introduced tough financial and investment sanctions, to push Russia to cease its illegal and destabilising actions.</p><p>In March 2022, Cabinet Office published PPN 01/22 which set out the government's commercial policy and guidance, recommending that public bodies immediately seek to identify any contracts with Russian and Belarusian companies and, to switch suppliers with minimal disruption, pursue legal routes of cancelling them. In all cases, contracting authorities must be proportionate and take a risk-based approach. The final decision to terminate a contract rests with the contracting authority with responsibility for the contract.</p><p>In the case of the Cabinet Office’s own commercial activities, since the publication of PPN 01/22, there have been no instances where a Russian/Belarusian supplier has bid, and therefore been excluded from a procurement. Other departments will hold their own records on such matters.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 21/03/2023 16:26:22 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1601676

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government has knowingly granted procurement contracts with any firms that have engaged in fire and rehire tactics.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	158943
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government has been clear on its opposition to this practice being used as a negotiating tactic and is now making it clear how it expects employers to behave.</p><p>Departments are responsible for their own commercial decisions, including the award and management of contracts.</p><p>Details of Government contracts above £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder: <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</a>.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 09/03/2023 14:13:12 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1586388

	registered interest
	date	17/02/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many suppliers the Government excluded from procurement on the grounds of fraud under the Public Contract Regulations 2015 in (a) 2015 (b) 2018 and (c) 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	146992
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling fraud and corruption in public procurement. All contracting authorities must act, and be seen to act, with integrity.</p><p>Information on how many suppliers the Government excluded from procurement on the grounds of fraud under the Public Contract Regulations 2015 is not held centrally. Departments will hold their own exclusions data.</p><p>The Public Sector Fraud Authority was established in August 2022 to work with departments and public bodies to understand the causes of fraud and reduce its impact, throughout the commercial lifecycle.</p><p>The Procurement Bill, which is making its way through Parliament, further strengthens the rules on supplier exclusion for fraud and corruption.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 22/02/2023 17:32:25 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1549623

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government will take to ensure adherence to the Construction Playbook.
	tabling member constituency	Wimbledon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Hammond
	uin	105335
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>To support departments in implementing the Construction Playbook, the Cabinet Office offers in-person training sessions and an eLearning module that covers the key principles. Departments are also able to bid for additional commercial resources to support live procurements. This is targeted, short-term specialist support to upskill teams through ‘on the job experience’ where we work with project teams to ensure they adhere to the playbook principles.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Cabinet Office is also encouraging adherence by working with departments to improve their pipelines, and making use of these to identify early opportunities to offer support in implementation of Playbook principles. This is complemented by work with senior sponsors in each of the key construction departments to identify areas to offer greater support, or to identify challenging areas where more guidance or training is required. Finally, compliance with the Playbook principles is assessed on a ‘comply or explain’ basis as part of the Cabinet Office commercial controls process.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 13/12/2022 11:00:23 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond

1548277

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of their commitment to pay (1) 90 per cent of undisputed and valid invoices from SMEs within five days, and (2) 100 per cent of all undisputed and valid invoices within 30 days, as part of their Prompt Payment Policy.
	tabling member printed	Lord Leong
	uin	HL4010
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>(1) In terms of the 90% of undisputed and valid invoices from SMEs within 5 days target: at the end of the previous financial year, 13 of 16 departments were exceeding 85% payment of all invoices within 5 days, with 7 departments paying over 90% of all invoices within this time period.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>(2) In terms of the 100% of valid and undisputed invoices being paid in 30 days target: as of the same date, 14 of 16 departments were paying in excess of 95% of their invoices within 30 days, with 6 of these exceeding 99%. This information is published quarterly on GOV.UK.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Cabinet Office works with departments to improve payment performance. In addition, the Procurement Bill will ensure that 30 day payment terms are included in government supply chain contracts.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 19/12/2022 17:22:44 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4959 label Biography information for Lord Leong

1519164

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to remove conflicts of interest in the government procurement process.
	tabling member constituency	Putney
	tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
	uin	59144
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2022 answer text <p>There are specific legal duties in the Public Contracts Regulations that require government departments to take appropriate measures to effectively prevent, identify and remedy conflicts of interest arising in the conduct of procurement procedures, so as to avoid any distortion of competition and to ensure equal treatment of all bidders and suppliers.</p><p>Companies may be excluded from bidding for government contracts where a conflict cannot be effectively remedied.</p><p>An updated Procurement Policy Note was published in May 2021 on the management of actual and perceived conflicts of interest in order to provide commercial teams across government with further information on the roles and responsibilities of those involved in decision making, risk management and how provisions may be applied to suppliers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/10/2022 16:27:19 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1519455

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if will make it his policy to apply a minimum liquidity threshold to companies applying to tender for Government contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Putney
	tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
	uin	60107
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2022 answer text <p>The Sourcing Playbook includes a specific guidance note on “Assessing and monitoring the economic and financial standing of suppliers”, which provides advice on effective evaluation and monitoring both pre and post procurement and is relevant to all Central Government Departments, their Executive Agencies and Non Departmental Public Bodies.</p><p>Assessing and monitoring the economic and financial standing of suppliers is about understanding the financial capacity of suppliers to perform a contract in order to safeguard the delivery of public services.</p><p>The guidance states that all assessments of bidders’ economic and financial standing should be proportionate, flexible, contract specific and not overly risk averse while ensuring protection of taxpayer value and safety and compliance with relevant procurement law.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/10/2022 13:33:55 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1505896

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many emergency procurement rules introduced in March 2020 are in place as of 7 September 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	49168
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>Existing procurement rules, which pre-date COVID-19, rightly allow the Government to procure at speed in times of emergency. These rules are not new and it is for contracting authorities to make their own determinations on when to use them.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/09/2022 15:30:55 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner