Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Contracts

(asked on 4th July 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million their (i) Department and (ii) Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much their Department has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.


Answered by
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Victoria Prentis
Attorney General
This question was answered on 15th July 2022

Details of Government contracts from 2016 above £10,000, and £25,000 in the wider public sector, are published on Contracts Finder. As Contracts Finder was implemented in 2016, not all records before this time are held centrally.

Information on contracts with start dates within the next 12 months has been provided in the attached spreadsheet, with contracts between £1m and £3m, and £3m and over, on separate tabs. The Customer Lead Department column has been highlighted for ease of reference.

There are 49 contracts between £1m and £3m and 92 contracts £3m and over with contract start dates within the next 12 months.

Once contracts are let they are “owned” by the relevant business area Senior Responsible Officer and managed within the appropriate team. Therefore, we cannot confirm the cost or resource invested in managing the contracts.

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