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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Sep 2019
UK Shared Prosperity Fund

"We have had 11 speakers and interventions, and I think they have all expressed their concern about the lack of detail. I thank the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (Drew Hendry) for bringing this to our attention.

The breaking news as I arrived in the Chamber was …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Sep 2019
UK Shared Prosperity Fund

"I am glad the Minister is telling us how much it costs—£1 billion a week or a month or whatever it happens to be. He is very good with his numbers, so can he give us an estimate of how much a no-deal Brexit will cost the country each month?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Sep 2019
UK Shared Prosperity Fund

"This stuff about surrendering is bizarre, because this is the Government who surrendered last night to what is apparently the surrender Bill. That is the situation we are in. They should publish the Yellowhammer report and make it transparent, so that we can see how much a no-deal crashing out …..."
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Written Question
Public Sector: Procurement
Wednesday 8th May 2019

Asked by: Peter Dowd (Labour - Bootle)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many public procurement contracts were awarded to foreign companies in 2018.

Answered by Oliver Dowden

Information on the nationality of suppliers is not routinely held centrally.

Statistics on cross-border public procurement between EU Member States are collated and published periodically by the European Commission. The latest report is available at https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/5c148423-39e2-11e7-a08e-01aa75ed71a1

Written Question
Public Sector: Procurement
Wednesday 8th May 2019

Asked by: Peter Dowd (Labour - Bootle)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many public infrastructure contracts were awarded to foreign companies in the last 12 months.

Answered by Oliver Dowden

Information on the nationality of suppliers for infrastructure contracts is not routinely held
centrally

Statistics on cross-border public procurement between EU Member States are collated and
published periodically by the European Commission. The latest report is available at
https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/5c148423-39e2-11e7-a08e-
01aa75ed71a1

Written Question
Government Departments: Procurement
Monday 1st April 2019

Asked by: Peter Dowd (Labour - Bootle)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2019 to Question 226687 on Government Departments: procurement, how many bidders have been excluded from a government procurement process due to being in breach of tax and social security obligations in 2018.

Answered by Oliver Dowden

The Cabinet Office does not hold this information centrally.

Written Question
Cabinet Office: Consultants
Monday 25th March 2019

Asked by: Peter Dowd (Labour - Bootle)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many consultants his Department has hired since 2016; and at what cost to the public purse.

Answered by Oliver Dowden

Details on consultancy expenditure are published in the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts

Written Question
Cabinet Office: Public Consultation
Thursday 14th March 2019

Asked by: Peter Dowd (Labour - Bootle)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many consultations by his Department (a) are open, (b) are closed awaiting a Government response and (c) have been initiated since 2016.

Answered by Oliver Dowden

There is currently one open Cabinet Office consultation. Nine closed Cabinet Office consultations are awaiting a Government response. Eighteen Cabinet Office consultations have been initiated since 1st January 2016

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Mar 2019
Comptroller and Auditor General

"I rise to offer the Opposition’s backing to the appointment of Mr Gareth Davies as Comptroller and Auditor General. The position was initiated by William Gladstone, a Liverpudlian at birth who lived at Seaforth in what is now my constituency of Bootle and actually went to school in Bootle at …..."
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Written Question
Government Departments: Procurement
Tuesday 5th March 2019

Asked by: Peter Dowd (Labour - Bootle)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what checks HMRC makes to ensure that the supply chains of government contractors are tax compliant.

Answered by Oliver Dowden

Regulation 57 of the Public Contracts Regulations sets out the conditions in which contracting authorities must exclude bidders from a procurement process where they have established by verification or are otherwise aware, of a final and binding judicial or administrative decision that a bidder is in breach of tax and social security obligations. Contracting authorities may also exclude a bidder from participation in a procurement procedure where the contracting authority can demonstrate by any appropriate means that the bidder is in breach of its obligations relating to the payment of taxes or social security contributions.

Regulation 71(8) extends these powers to exclude subcontractors.