Police: Procurement
(asked on 2nd December 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the savings to be achieved in the police force through the use of joint procurement.
This question was answered on 21st December 2016
The police spend about £2.5bn per year on third party goods and services.
The Department has enacted a number of price comparison exercises whereby the police have been required to report more detailed information about their procurement spend on individual items which have been published on police.uk.
Over the last 18 months Forces have reported procurement savings of £140m; of which £49.5m have been collaborative.