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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to maintain services supplied by Carillion plc to local councils.

Continuity of services is the Government and local councils’ top priority. All public sector services continue to be delivered and minimal disruption to public services has been reported.

We have been working through the Local Government Association over the past few weeks to ensure that affected English local authorities had robust contingency plans in place to manage the impacts of Carillion failing.

Councils have now put those plans into action, and will continue to deliver all public sector services. And all staff engaged on these public sector contracts will continue to be paid.