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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many of her Department's policies have been formulated with reference to research from the Behavioural Insights Team since 2010.

The Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy has commissioned research from the Behavioural Insights Team since 2014 across a wide range of issues which have added to the evidence base in formulating the department’s policies.

Since January 2011, details of central government contracts awarded above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published prior to 26 February 2015 can be viewed at:

https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive.

Those published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at:

https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search.