Government Contracts

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Cabinet Office – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 24 November 2010.

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Photo of David Ruffley David Ruffley Conservative, Bury St Edmunds 11:30, 24 November 2010

I am grateful to the Minister. On 13 November, I chaired a summit meeting of the chief executives of 14 significant third sector bodies in Suffolk to discuss the big society and Suffolk county council's radical new strategic direction programme to contract out local public services. The third sector bodies were extremely keen to bid for these contracts, but they were concerned that unscrupulous, large corporate prime contractors and a very crude payment-by-results regime could fatally damage their cash flow-