Question follow-through · 24351
Government Departments: Procurement
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure consistency in the application of the new procurement requirements across contracting authorities.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure consistency in the application of the new procurement requirements across contracting authorities.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Cabinet Office will publish detailed guidance on the application of social value criteria in central government procurement in the autumn. This will include standard reporting metrics.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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