Select committee: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee
7th Report - After Carillion: Public sector outsourcing and contracting
HC 748
Published 9 July 2018
Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Sourcing public services: lessons learned from the collapse of Carillion inquiry Report on parliament.uk ↗
At a glanceGovernment response published 5 November 2018
The government's response
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.
The government accepts that rebuilding trust in outsourcing needs greater transparency, and sets out its approach through a new commercial "playbook", while declining some of the Committee's specific proposals.
- On a centre of excellence for applied contracting, the government remains "unclear" what specific problem it would solve that existing processes do not already address.
- On disclosing risk positions, it states "We do not intend to extend our current transparency approach to take on disclosure of risk positions".
- Cabinet Office and the Treasury are developing a playbook to specify a methodology and standards for outsourcing, and to look at making the rationale for decisions more transparent.
- On supplier resilience, it commits to publish 3 to 5 KPIs starting with the most important contracts, and says living wills are "currently being developed" with industry.
What the committee recommended
No recommendations or conclusions have been extracted from this report. This is normal for correspondence and for special reports.
Sources
- 7th Report - After Carillion: Public sector outsourcing and contracting ↗The committee's report, HC 748, parliament.uk
- 9th Special Report - Government Response to the Committee's Seventh Report: After Carillion: Public sector outsourcing and contracting ↗The government's response, 5 November 2018, parliament.uk