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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many contracts his Department has awarded to the Building Research Establishment since 2010; and what the total value is of those contracts.

The Department has awarded 26 contracts to the Building Research Establishment with a total value of £5.9 million since 1 April 2010.

In addition since January 2011, details of central government contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published prior to 26 February 2015 can be viewed at:

https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive.

Those published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at:

https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search.