Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much and what proportion of his Department's budget was spent on 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.
The departments accounting system does not separately identify spend on activities which are contracted out; this information could not be extracted within the disproportionate cost threshold.