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<p>The information requested is not readily available and could be provided only at
disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>HMT routinely records contracts let, where the
total contract value is of £10,000 (excl VAT) or more on the Tender and Contract Database.</p><p>
</p><p>While the database does retain details of individual suppliers it does not
categorise them according to their status e.g. whether they are data analysts and
/ or data collection companies</p><p> </p><p>To ascertain the information requested
would involve drilling down into the information contained and a call out to all individual
suppliers to ascertain their formal status at disproportionate cost.</p>
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