Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's written statement of 20 June on Military Accommodation: Safety Inspections, HCWS867, how much performance credit for fixed and variable profit for the service period has been withheld from contractors because of the expiry of valid gas certificates.

The Department has exercised to the fullest extent its contractual rights to withhold fixed and variable profit in respect of the delivery of statutory inspections, the service category under which gas safety inspections fall.

Information regarding the specific amount is being withheld and cannot be provided, as its disclosure would prejudice commercial interests.