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

To ask Her Majesty's Government when the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government will publish (1) the specific purposes of the contracted services, (2) a cost-benefit analysis of the contracted services, and (3) the Data Protection Impact Assessment, for its contract with Faculty for data science services.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) are planning to publish the amended version of the Faculty contract that will include the specific purposes of the contracted services that were carried out. This is anticipated to be published on the Contract Finder website the week commencing the 27 July.

No cost benefit analysis of the contracted services has been undertaken at this time. A robust selection process was carried out through the Crown Commercial Service's G-Cloud Digital Marketplace.

MHCLG does not routinely publish Data Protection Impact Assessments completed by the Department.