Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how he plans to measure progress on increasing public sector insourcing.

This Government is committed to delivering the largest wave of insourcing in a generation. As part of this, we will introduce a ‘Public Interest Test’. This will be a game-changer - ending the culture of ‘outsourcing by default’. This will ensure contracting authorities are undertaking a holistic assessment of their services and identifying opportunities to insource contracts as they expire.

Application of the Public Interest Test will be assessed through the usual contracting authority governance processes and, where applicable, Cabinet Office controls.