Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason his Department has not published the transparency data entitled BEIS: Spending over £25,000 since 8 February 2018; and when they plan to next update that data.

In February 2018 the Department identified that its recently published datasets contained data that could be commercially sensitive. The Department takes the protection and handling of its data very seriously. Extensive process re-engineering work was therefore undertaken to minimise the risk of this happening again.

We are committed to re-commencing publication of these datasets by Easter 2019.