Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many contracts his Department has awarded to private sector organisations in each of the last five years; and what the value of those contracts was.
The number of contracts awarded to private sector organisations by The Department for Work & Pensions in each of the last 5 years, by award value, is provided in the table below.
Year | No. of Contracts | Award Value |
2009 | 366 | £3,947,818,007 |
2010 | 150 | £972,973,727 |
2011 | 153 | £4,713,641,256 |
2012 | 126 | £1,152,741,666 |
2013 | 151 | £449,956,792 |
2014 | 167 | £1,253,064,873 |
2015 (01 Jan - 12 Feb) | 35 | £142,079,330 |