Local Authorities: Cleaning Services

(asked on 22nd January 2018) - View Source

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 contracted out general cleaning services for each local authority general cleaning services, by service provider, in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Rishi Sunak Portrait
Rishi Sunak
Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, and Minister for the Union
This question was answered on 29th January 2018

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.

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