Willie Rennie
Chair of Parliamentary Campaigns; Shadow Defence Minister
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department spent on bottled water in each of the last 12 months.
Bill Rammell
Minister of State (Armed Forces), Ministry of Defence
Expenditure on bottled water used within the Ministry of Defence is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Bottled water is supplied through multi-activity, private finance initiative and public private partnership contracts. In accordance with Government policy on sustainable procurement, the supply of bottled water is to be removed from such contracts, where drinkable tap water is available.
Separately, bottled water is supplied to service personnel under the MOD world-wide food supply contract. Expenditure against the current contract for each of the last 12 months is provided in the following table.
| Value (£000) | |
| November 2008 | 51.7 |
| December 2008 | 43.7 |
| January 2009 | 23.2 |
| February 2009 | 34.1 |
| March 2009 | 56.5 |
| April 2009 | 40.3 |
| May 2009 | 53.8 |
| June 2009 | 78.3 |
| July 2009 | 124.5 |
| August 2009 | 137.6 |
| September 2009 | 155.3 |
| October 2009 | 394.2 |
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