Written Question·Cabinet Office·UIN 111213

Cabinet Office: Contracts

Tabled: 5 February 2026

Answered: 12 February 2026

Named Day

Question

Kim Johnson

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the assessment criteria the Department uses to determine whether the supplier of externally-contracted services has been responsible for a critical performance failure in delivering its contra

Answer

Chris Ward

The Cabinet Office does not utilise a single, universal set of assessment criteria for determining whether a supplier is responsible for a critical performance failure. Instead, specific criteria are defined within each individual contract, generally alig...

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