Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has plans to issue new guidance on social value in procurement.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Public procurement is a key lever for enabling delivery of the Government’s missions by using procurement policy to drive economic growth, raise employment standards in business, and achieve additional social value through the life of a contract. The Government’s ‘Plan to Make Work Pay’ sets out an ambitious programme to value organisations that create local jobs, skills and wealth and treat their workers well and equally. Ministers are considering how to take these plans forward.