Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2022 to Question 108299 on Prison Education Review, what additional assurance processes are put in place by the contract management team for larger DPS contracts.

There are no formal criteria for distinguishing between larger and smaller Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) contracts. However, those DPS contracts which are delivered on multiple sites and relate to business priority deliverables attract additional assurance activity centrally by the contract management team in the form of checks of the assurance activity that is taking place locally to ensure the contractor is delivering against the DPS contract.