Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Written Statement of 21 November 2017, HCWS265, on toxicology, whether her Department distributed details of contract renewals and tenders to Trimega through the Pipeline Monitoring System (a) before 10 July 2013 and (b) after 11 April 2014; and if she will make a statement

The Home Office did not distribute details of contract renewals and tenders to Trimega through the Pipeline Monitoring System.

The Pipeline Monitoring System was a non-contractual framework management process adopted under the National Forensic Framework Agreement (NFFA) and the National Forensic Framework Next Generation (NFFNG). Trimega worked in the family law sector and were not on the NFFA or the NFFNG.