Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many purchases with a value of less than £500 were made against his Department’s budget using a Government procurement card (a) in calendar year 2022 and (b) from 1 January to 31 October 2023; and what was the total cost of those purchases.

Internal management information on GPC data for transactions under £500 indicates as follows:

01 January 2022 to 31 December 2022

Number of Transaction is 16,921

Total Expenditure is £1,511,499

01 January 2023 to 31 October 2023

Number of Transactions is 13,009

Total Expenditure is £1,111,945