Question follow-through · 122098

ICT: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department must approve IT spend above a certain value.

answeredDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology

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Answering body: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Tabled: 19 Mar 2026
Target answer date: 23 Mar 2026
Answer: 27 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

19 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department must approve IT spend above a certain value.
23 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Mar 2026
Answer published
Yes. The Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, must approve all digital and technology spend above certain values.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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