Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2017 to Question 5399, on public sector: procurement, how the response that the information on whether a certificate of past performance is self-certificated is not stored centrally accords with Annex F of Public Procurement Note of 25 March 2015 which says that a copy of the certificate, including the Name of Entity Providing the Certificate, must be sent to the Crown Commercial Service.

The information requested is not recorded centrally. To compile the data would require retrieving and analysing each individual certificate, and to do this would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold.