Department for Communities and Local Government: Procurement

(asked on 25th October 2017) - View Source
Questioner
Andrew Gwynne Portrait
Andrew Gwynne
(Labour - Denton and Reddish)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 24 October 2017 to Question 107742, on Department for Communities and Local Government: procurement, how many project managers employed by his Department have the authority to authorise projects of a value in excess of £10,000.

Answered by
Marcus Jones Portrait
Marcus Jones
Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
This question was answered on 1st November 2017

No one individual (i.e. a Project Manager) in the Department has the authority to authorise projects which have a financial implication..

Individual payments over £10,000 must be authorised by a senior civil servant in accordance with the Department’s financial delegation framework:

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