Business: Procurement
(asked on 21st May 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the relative environmental impact of awarding procurement contracts to British businesses compared to foreign businesses.
Answered by
Lord Callanan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 4th June 2020
As part of the Greening Government Commitments, Departments are required to report on the systems they have in places and the actions they take to buy sustainably.
The 2017/2018 Greening Government Commitments Annual Report found that:
- The majority of departments have a specific sustainable procurement policy or wider sustainability policy in place, or include sustainability within overarching procurement policy;
- Most departments have undertaken or are planning to undertake supply chain scrutiny.