Question to the Home Office:

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

Details of contracts above the value of £10,000 awarded to private sector
providers are published on the Contracts Finder website,
www.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk .

The total value of contracts the Home Office has with private sector providers
in each of the years for which records are available is as follows:

Financial Year Aggregated Spend against contracts with private sector providers

2009/10 Data Not Available
2010/11 £2.45 billion
2011/12 £2.40 billion
2012/13 £2.13 billion
2013/14 £1.99 billion

The aggregated spend data provided shows a reduction in private
sector contract spend of £460 million since 2010-11.