Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Philip Davies and Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton

Monday 11th June 2018 Commons Chamber

[Mark Lancaster]

That is absolutely our ambition, yes.

[Philip Davies (Shipley) (Con)]

I asked every Government Department how many contractors they had employed for over one year and five years, and how many they had paid over £1,000 a day to. Can the Secretary of State explain why his was one of only two Departments that was either unwilling or unable to answer that question, and can I urge him to go back and find out how many contractors are paid over £1,000 a day, so that he, and we, can see how well he manages his Department’s spending?