Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department paid to (a) G4S, (b) Serco, (c) Sodexo, (d) GEOAmey, (e) Capita, (f) Atos, (g) Mitie, (h) Working Links, (i) A4E, (j) MTC Amey, (k) GEO Group and (l) Carillion in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12, (iii) 2012-13 and (iv) 2013-14.
Answered by Philip Dunne
As part of the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) transparency programme, monthly spend over £25,000 is available on the Gov.uk website for financial years 2010-11 to 2013-14:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mod-finance-transparency-dataset.
This data represents payments made centrally by the MOD. It does not include payments made by the MOD’s Trading Funds, payments made for warlike stores, and payments that would be exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information legislation (for example, for reasons of national security or commercial sensitivity).
No payments have been made over the period 2010-11 to 2013-14 to GEO Amey, Working Links, A4E, MTC Amey or GEO Group.
Since January 2011, all contracts over £10,000 in value are published on Contracts Finder:
http://www.contractsfinder.co.uk/
Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of his Department's budget was spent on activities which were contracted out in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14; and how much and what proportion of his Department's budget he expects to be contracted out in 2014-15.
Answered by Philip Dunne
Expenditure on contracted-out services is summarised in the Ministry of Defence's (MOD) Annual Report and Accounts and has been as follows since 2009-10:
Financial Year | Expenditure (£ billion) | Expenditure as a percentage of Defence Budget[1] |
2009-10 | 2.1 | 5.3% |
2010-11 | 2.2 | 5.5% |
2011-12 | 2.5 | 6.6% |
2012-13 | 2.7 | 8.0% |
The audited outturn for 2013-14 will be published in the MOD's 2013-14 Annual Report and Accounts which are due to be laid before Parliament in mid September 2014. Our in-year forecast for 2014-15 does not identify expenditure on contracted-out services discretely.
This expenditure represents the cost of the MOD's Service Concession Arrangements (formerly know as Private Finance Initiative Service Charges), Contractor Logistic Support and Integrated Operational Support contracts, finance lease service charges and External Assistance. This expenditure does not include those contracted-out services not reported centrally.
[1] Total DEL: Annual Report and Accounts.