Departments: Remploy

Danny Alexander
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what (a) services and (b) products his Department has procured from Remploy in the last 12 months; and at what cost.

Mr. Hain
The Northern Ireland Office (NIO), excluding its agencies and NDPBs, uses the Ministry of Justice procurement systems and the Office of Government Commerce on line call off procurement services. To date Remploy have not featured in either of those sources. We are aware of the services they offer and subject to our value for money and sustainable development criteria being met would consider a Remploy tender via those procurement channels.