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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the cost was of contracts for catering services that have been contracted out by each local authority by service service provider for (a) schools (b) local government, (c) adult social care and (d) residential care homes in each year since 2010.

Local authorities are responsible for their contracts and the Government does not record or hold data on contracts awarded by local authorities. However, the Local Government Transparency Code 2015 requires local authorities to publish details of any contract, commissioned activity, purchase order, framework agreement and any other legally enforceable agreement with a value that exceeds £5,000.

The Code also recommends that local authorities publish details of every invitation to tender for contracts to provide goods and/or services with a value that exceeds £500 instead of £5,000.