Asked by: James Frith (Labour - Bury North)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many infrastructure contracts overseen by his Department have been let with the stipulation that a Project Bank Account must be applied in the last year.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), on behalf of the Ministry of Defence, has let one infrastructure contract in the last year with the stipulation that a Project Bank Account (PBA) must be used. For all future procurements, DIO are reviewing the way in which PBAs can be embedded into contracts.