Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the total value of contracts her Department has with private sector providers was in each of the last five years for which records are available.

Under this Government’s transparency programme, contracts above £10k are published on Contracts Finder which is available at: https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder since January 2011.

We are unable to provide the data for the previous year as we did not have a central contracts management system in place.