Question follow-through · 111213
Cabinet Office: Contracts
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the assessment criteria the Department uses to determine whether the supplier of externally-contracted services has been responsible for a critical performance failure in delivering its contra
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 5 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 12 Feb 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the assessment criteria the Department uses to determine whether the supplier of externally-contracted services has been responsible for a critical performance failure in delivering its contra
11 Feb 2026
Target answer date
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12 Feb 2026
Answer published
The Cabinet Office does not utilise a single, universal set of assessment criteria for determining whether a supplier is responsible for a critical performance failure. Instead, specific criteria are defined within each individual contract, generally alig...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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