Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the impact of the closure of Digital Marketplace on transparency in procurement.

The Digital Marketplace is a legacy platform and is being replaced by the new Contract Award Service (CAS). CAS operates both of the commercial agreements previously available on the Digital Marketplace.

Historic transparency information will continue to be publicly available from the Digital Marketplace for the next 3 years.

Current and future procurement transparency information will be available from the CAS platform for both of the commercial agreements that were previously available on the Digital Marketplace.