Baroness Seccombe – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Seccombe on 2014-05-07.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Deighton on 6 May (WA 368–70), what was the breakdown of departmental private office spending on Government Procurement Cards in the Department for Energy and Climate Change between 2008–09 and 2009–10.

Baroness Verma

GPC spend above £500 by the Department are published on the GOV.UK website. Details for May 2012 to March 2014 are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/gpc-departmental-spend-over-500

Details for April 2010 to April 2012 are archived at:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121025080026/http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/accesstoinform/expenditure/spend_over_500/spend_over_500.aspx

The Department does not hold records of any details prior to April 2010. Those for 2008-09 and 2009-10 were held as a mixture of electronic and paper records by both BIS and Defra. Locating and retrieving these records would incur disproportionate costs.

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