Question follow-through · 75716

Home Office: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) contractors and (b) subcontractors used by her Department publish accounts in line with HMRC requirements.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 8 Sept 2025
Target answer date: 11 Sept 2025
Answer: 16 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

8 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) contractors and (b) subcontractors used by her Department publish accounts in line with HMRC requirements.
11 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2025
Answer published
Contractors under direct contract with agreements over £10k are bound by contract terms to both uphold the laws of the land and to not bring the Secretary of State into disrepute.This includes responsibility for any subcontractors they engage.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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