Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the value was of contracts awarded by her Department to Sprakab in each of the last five years.

The present contract awarded to Sprakab earlier this year is on a non-volume guarantee basis, and has no set value. The previous contractual arrangement for the provision of language analysis services with Sprakab commenced in 2007 and
also had no set value.

In both contracts, testing with Sprakab was conducted on a flexible, case by case basis, and charges were accrued accordingly.