Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much and what proportion of (a) his Department's budget and (b) the budget of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minster was spent for activities which were contracted out in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14; and how much and what proportion of his Department's budget he expects to be contracted out in 2014-15.

My Department outsources with Bouygues, Fujitsu (contracts signed under the previous administration), with the mutual joint venture MyCSP (signed in 2012) and Shared Services Connected Limited (signed in 2013).

As breakdown by year is

9/10 £10,370,213

10/11 £12,567,173

11/12 £18,417,184

12/13 £54,189

13/14 £832,189

Departmental resource and capital budgets are published online.