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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many contracts put out to tender by (a) his Department and (b) former constituent Departments have been (i) cancelled and (b) re-tendered in each year since 2010.

This information is only held for contracts that have been awarded through our shared service provider.

Since 2015, of the contracts put out to tender (i) two have been cancelled; and (ii) neither were re-tendered.

We do not hold records for the other years.