Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the total value of contracts his Department has with private sector providers was in each of the last five years for which records are available.

The information requested is not held centrally and can only be provided at disproportionate cost. Contracts of the Department are published on the Cabinet Office Website which can be found at:

www.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk.

The Department would be able to provide further contract information by narrowing the scope, if specific procurement projects were identified.

As an indication of departmental spend our financial records show that the following payments have been made to 3^rd party suppliers:

• April 2013 to March 2014: £184,784,757.64;

• April 2014 to January 2015: £147,863,946.28.