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Police: Procurement

Volume 494: debated on Monday 15 June 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 12 May 2009, Official Report, column 669W, on police: procurement, what the findings were of the review of police service spending on goods and services; and whether he plans to publish the review. (278429)

The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) Procurement Portfolio Group, on behalf of the 43 police forces in England and Wales, have now agreed that during 2009-10 the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) will co-ordinate, facilitate and deliver a national approach to managing the top 10 categories of goods and services and top 10 suppliers identified as highest spend. Savings from employing this national approach will be realised within police force budgets over a two-year rolling programme.

Due to the sensitive commercial nature of data relating to expenditure with suppliers and the fact that negotiations are currently in progress, the financial content of the review cannot be made publicly available at this time. Each police force will make the decision together with their own police authority as to whether their own savings are made publicly available either by police force or by region.