Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Andy Slaughter Excerpts
Wednesday 7th November 2012

(11 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. There are far too many noisy private conversations taking place in the Chamber. Let us have a bit of order so that Members may actually be heard—it is something to do with manners.

Andy Slaughter Portrait Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith) (Lab)
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T2. As the Minister seems to love contracting out work to the cosy cartel of G4S, A4e, Serco and Capita, does he not think that transparency should extend to those companies as much as it does to the public sector?

Lord Maude of Horsham Portrait Mr Maude
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We can, of course, build appropriate levels of transparency into contracts when services are contracted out. That process was taken a lot further by the previous Government, so it is not a feature of the coalition Government. I will pass on the hon. Gentleman’s concern to my right and hon. Friends in the Ministry of Justice.