To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department has contracted work to a business named in round 18 of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme in the last 3 years.

There is 1 live contract with a business named in round 18 of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme in the last 3 years. currently sits across both Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.

The Supplier was procured supplier was procured from an audited and regulated government framework, that has public standard terms and conditions including legislation and statute compliance. The main compliance checks are undertaken by the framework owner/ buying authority and not the department. The department validates through supplier professional services rate cards and invoices for the hourly and daily rates of its professionals under this contract.