Department for Work and Pensions: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution
(asked on 9th December 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department spent in 2021 on purchasing goods and services with a value of less than £500 on a government procurement card.
This question was answered on 19th December 2022
The total spent by the Department for Work and Pensions on items with a value of less than £500 on a Government Procurement Card (GPC) in 2021 was £8,507,730.65 (69,786 transactions).
Source: GPC data. This gives details of all transactions posted during the 2021 calendar year and includes expenditure as well as refunds. The figure quoted is net of refunds.
Points to note:
- The Government Procurement Card (GPC) is a purchasing solution specifically for low risk/ low value purchases, enabling Government to buy from particular suppliers that include both small and medium sized enterprises.
- The card transaction limit for Approval to Buy (A2B) transactions is £500. Approximately 96% of all transactions are A2B.
- The card transaction limit for a ‘physical’ card is £600, with exceptions allowed on approval of a supporting business case.
- Most GPC transactions are for Flexible Support Fund (FSF) expenditure, supporting claimants back into the workplace by covering costs associated with seeking employment, e.g. interview travel expenses.