Departmental Procurement
Education
Gareth Thomas (Harrow West, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what proportion of the total value of contracts issued or to be issued by his Department in 2011-12 have required successful organisations to put up a capital bond; and if he will make a statement.
Tim Loughton (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Education; East Worthing and Shoreham, Conservative)
To establish whether any of the Department’s contracts issued or to be issued in 2011-12 required the successful organisation to put up a capital bond would incur disproportionate costs.