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<p>The Department supports the Charter where this is relevant to our commercial activities
and only where consistent with the relevant procurement regulations that require fair
and open competition.</p><p>The Parliamentary Undersecretary of State at the Department
for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Andrew Stephenson MP), wrote to the
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on 29 May to ask the Department to sign
the Steel Charter. We are not aware of any further formal discussions on the topic.
On matters relating to procurement policy, Departmental officials continue to work
with officials in the Domestic Policy Team at Cabinet Office.</p>
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