Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million their (i) Department and (ii) Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much their Department has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.

The Department for International Trade (DIT) was formed in July 2016 so represents the earliest date for DIT contracts. The number of contracts signed since this date is as below:

DIT is a leading department in the implementation of contract management capability in seeking to ensure that contracts are managed by appropriately trained personnel but it does not hold the information pertaining to the amount spent or number of officials monitoring these contracts over this period.