Question follow-through · 900215

Procurement: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she plans to take with Cabinet colleagues to recover public money spent on contracts for goods and services that were not provided during the pandemic.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
27 Aug 2024
Target answer date
3 Sept 2024
Answer
3 Sept 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 27 Aug 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she plans to take with Cabinet colleagues to recover public money spent on contracts for goods and services that were not provided during the pandemic.

  2. 3 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Sept 2024

    Answer published

    We are appointing a fixed-term Covid Fraud Commissioner through an open competition that is running now. The Commissioner will make sure that everything is done to return the money owed to the public purse, with a primary focus on pandemic PPE contracts. ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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