Question follow-through · 67636
Department for Education: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of departmental procurement contracts were awarded to British companies in the last financial year.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 14 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of departmental procurement contracts were awarded to British companies in the last financial year.
16 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jul 2025
Answer published
The department’s procurement and contract management system only collects information related to company head office addresses rather than the ‘nationality’ of a company.Details of central government contracts above £12,000 for procurements commenced befo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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