Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the MHCLG annual report and accounts 2025 to 2026, HC484, 15 July 2026, page 31, if she will breakdown the £11.3m of cashable commercial savings.

In MHCLG savings are recorded by the Department’s Commercial Team in line with the cross government methodology agreed by Cabinet Office, Government Commercial and Finance Functions, this captures and reports savings over the duration of contacts. In 2025/26 an additional 212 individual savings records were added to the system in addition to those recorded in prior years. Savings were generated through a combination of competitive tendering and negotiation/renegotiation of contracts and scopes of works. This includes where appropriate the use of should cost models in line with the Government’s Sourcing Playbooks.