Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with public contracts entered into by (1) government departments, their executive agencies, and non-departmental public bodies, and (2) other public authorities covered by public procurement regulations.

The Cabinet Office does not hold the reporting or recording of contract level greenhouse gas emissions for the public sector. Individual departmental emissions (including contributions made by public contracts) are recorded via the Greening Government commitments (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/greening-government-commitments).

By the end of May 2021, 50 commercial agreements above the threshold of £5m per annum had applied Procurement Policy Notice 06/21, with a total value of £82 billion over the life of those agreements.