Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Government Procurement Card
(asked on 15th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his Department's total expenditure made using Government Procurement Cards was in each of the last five years.
The Department's total expenditure made using Government Procurement Cards in each of the last five years:
Financial Year (Apr-Mar) | Total Expenditure (GBP) |
2022/2023 to date | 31,771,408.65 |
2021/2022 | 38,900,114.81 |
2020/2021 | 31,517,913.17 |
2019/2020 | 40,200,041.60 |
2018/2019 | 33,796,943.41 |
2017/2018 | 29,164,521.38 |
Government Procurement Cards provide an efficient route to enable key staff to procure goods and services, necessary to the promotion of British interests overseas and the maintenance of our embassies and high commissions. All purchases are subject to authorisation by managers and audit checks. Local budgets are scrutinised for waste, and fraud is monitored by our audit teams to ensure best value to the tax payer.