Roger Godsiff – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Scotland Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Roger Godsiff on 2015-02-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the total value of contracts his Department has with private sector providers was in each of the last five years for which records are available.

David Mundell

Other than minor or bespoke purchases, the Scotland Office does not undertake direct procurement or tendering projects. It utilises existing service contracts between suppliers and the Scottish Government or the Ministry of Justice.

In each of the last five financial years, the total value of the contracts the Scotland Office had with private sector providers is shown below:

All of the contracts relate to accommodation services and a proportion of the costs are recharged to other departments which share accommodation with the Scotland Office.