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Written Question
Educational Testing Service
Tuesday 1st July 2014

Asked by: Nick Gibb (Conservative - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what current contracts (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department's executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies hold with the Educational Testing Service or any of that organisation's subsidiaries.

Answered by Mike Penning

Neither the Department for Work and Pensions nor any of its non-departmental public bodies have any current contracts with the Educational Testing Service or any of that organisation's subsidiaries.

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