Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what measures the Government will take to hold contracting authorities accountable in delivering procurement strategies that support domestic supply chains, particularly within the UK bus manufacturing sector.

This Government is committed to ensuring procurement strategies do everything possible to support UK jobs and industry. Since coming to office, we have consulted on procurement reforms to boost domestic supply chains and create more opportunities for businesses including across the UK bus manufacturing sector.

We are supporting Combined Mayoral Authorities to coordinate the procurement of buses through a Crown Commercial Service commercial agreement. This will be supplemented by the soon to be published ten-year pipeline of future bus orders, which will provide much needed certainty to the sector.