Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department’s government procurement card spending over £500 on travel and stationery for the month of April 2021, published on 14 July 2021, for what reason there is a difference between the total spending of £674,470.73 for all items in the spreadsheet named Stationery and the total of £507,000.67 included in the spreadsheets named Stationery Pivot and epcData Travel-Stationery.

Following an internal review, the Ministry of Defence can confirm that an administrative error occurred which resulted in a reporting discrepancy within the April 2021 MOD travel and stationery Government Procurement Card (GPC) transparency report.

The raw data contained within the tab titled "Stationery" contains all throughput against the Stationery Lodged Card for the month of April 2021. The tabs titled "sheet 1", "ePCDataTravelStationery" and "stationery pivot" contain incorrect values with regards to Stationery spend and will be updated as a matter of priority. It has also been identified as part of this investigation that multiple MOD GPC transparency reports contain transactions under the value of £500.

The Stationery breakdown below provides confirmed transactional throughput for this spend category during the April 2021 billing period.