Cabinet Office: Contracts
Commons · Question 111213 · Tabled 5 Feb 2026 · Cabinet Office · Official record
Answered 12 Feb 2026
Question
Asked by 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
Answered by Chris Ward, 12 Feb 2026
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...