Procurement
(asked on 10th July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 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.
Contracted out expenditure has been interpreted as all third party expenditure. Figures are net of income and recoverable VAT. Figures cover the central Department and its Non Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs).
The relevant figures for the periods 2012-13; 2013-14; and, 2014-15 taken from our General Ledger are set out below.
£m | 2012-13 Outturn | 2013-14 Outturn | 2014-15 Plans |
Commercial Expenditure | 3,211 | 3,102 | 3,187 |
Proportion of total DEL Expenditure | 41% | 39% | 40% |
Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) expenditure has been used to calculate the proportion of total expenditure. These figures have been taken from the Department's Annual Reports and Accounts 2013-14, Annex 7 – Expenditure Tables.
Data is not available for prior years on a comparable basis. The Department has changed the way it reports commercial expenditure in the last couple of years, which makes later years incomparable with earlier years.