Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many suppliers have been excluded from bidding for contracts as a result of not complying with the criteria set out in the guidance entitled, Procurement policy note 03/14: promoting tax compliance, in each year since 2014.

The Department follows the procurement policy on tax compliance for contracts over £5 million.

However, MHCLG’s procurement team are not aware of any supplier having been excluded from a procurement process for non-compliance with PPN 03/14. As the Department does not maintain a record of decisions such as this, it is not possible to state categorically that the department has or has not excluded suppliers from procurement process for contracts over £5 million since 2014.