Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2017 to Question 8750, on Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: procurement, what the contract was that took more than one year to procure.

This procurement related to a contract for a Roadshow Truck and Trailer Project for UK Trade and Investment.

The procurement requirement was raised in September 2015 and the contract was then placed in November 2015, for an initial term ending in October 2016. A contract variation was subsequently raised in October 2016 to extend the contract for a further 12 months. The period from September 2015 to the date of the contract variation in October 2016 exceeded 12 months and this was reported as a long-lead time procurement.