Question follow-through · 54575
Public Sector: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that infrastructure projects commissioned by public bodies prioritise local (a) employment and (b) contractors.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 19 Jun 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that infrastructure projects commissioned by public bodies prioritise local (a) employment and (b) contractors.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jun 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon Member to the National Procurement Policy Statement published by the Cabinet Office on 13 February 2025, which states that in carrying out a procurement covered by the Procurement Act 2023, a contracting authority must have regard to the i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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