Question follow-through · 121173
Buses: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to require local authority bus operators to run procurement operations with Government money that include consideration of social value weighting.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 16 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to require local authority bus operators to run procurement operations with Government money that include consideration of social value weighting.
18 Mar 2026
Target answer date
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24 Mar 2026
Answer published
My Department recognises the importance of social value in public procurement, and government procurement policy requires Central Government Departments to apply a minimum 10% weighting. Whilst this 10% minimum weighting is not mandatory for Local Authori...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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