Question follow-through · 53050

Public Sector: Contracts

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to insource public services.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
19 May 2025
Target answer date
21 May 2025
Answer
2 Jun 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 19 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to insource public services.

  2. 21 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The Government is determined to deliver high quality public services and better value for money for the taxpayer. To further this aim, we have committed to introducing a public interest test to assess whether expiring contracts could be better delivered, ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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