Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of whether the work done by the Scottish Procurement Directorate to promote the use of the SIA Approved Contractor Scheme in public body contracts for security services in Scotland might be a model that would have a beneficial effect elsewhere in the UK.

No assessment has been made of the potential benefit for the rest of the UK of the work done by the Scottish Procurement Directorate in relation to the Approved Contractor Scheme.