Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012

Justice written question – answered at on 16 May 2013.

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Photo of Hazel Blears Hazel Blears Labour, Salford and Eccles

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many contracts for the running of prisons have used the social value clauses in the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 since that Act came into force.

Photo of Jeremy Wright Jeremy Wright The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice

Given that the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 came into force in January 2013 there are no current prisons contracts that contain the social value clauses.

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