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Departmental Procurement

Volume 480: debated on Wednesday 8 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills if he will place in the Library the names and addresses of each organisation that supplied goods and services to his Department in 2007-08, based on the purchase order data held in the Department's financial database. (222109)

The Department will not place in the Library the names and addresses of each organisation that supplied goods and services to his Department in 2007-08, based on the purchase order data held in the Department’s financial database. The Department’s finance system can only produce a list of all organisations including commercial and non-commercial organisations that have received a payment form the Department. We would, however have to consider, on an individual basis, whether or not disclosure of that information might prejudice the commercial interests of the Department or the relevant organisation and that could be done only at disproportionate costs.