Question follow-through · 27186
Public Sector: Procurement
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the safeguards recommended by the Covid Inquiry will be put in place to prevent political connections from being used to secure privileged access to public contracts.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 3 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 7 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 21 Sept 2026 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the safeguards recommended by the Covid Inquiry will be put in place to prevent political connections from being used to secure privileged access to public contracts.
7 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Government is fully committed to supporting the work of the Covid-19 Inquiry and to learning lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic to ensure the UK is better prepared for a future pandemic.The Inquiry published its report on Module 5 (Procurement) in Jul...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
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