Source · Select Committees · Business and Trade Committee
Recommendation 29
29
Accepted in Part
Paragraph: 146
High-quality data will be essential for monitoring and improving compliance with steel procurement policy.
Recommendation
High-quality data will be essential for monitoring and improving compliance with steel procurement policy. However, this data is currently incomplete with only partial data being reported by Government Departments and Arm’s Length Bodies. We welcome the work of the Steel Procurement Taskforce in working to improve the quality of this data. However, at the very least, all Government projects should be fully reporting on the value and origin of their steel requirements.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government notes the points on steel procurement and states the Steel Procurement Taskforce is actively considering improving data robustness and updating policy. It commits to working with departments to continuously improve data quality and simplify collection in the coming years, citing National Highways' commitment to provide 2022 data.
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Government Response
Accepted in Part
HM Government · verbatim extract
Accepted in Part
57. Since leaving the EU the Government has initiated a review of our public procurement rules with the aim of speeding up and simplifying our processes, placing value for money at their heart, and unleashing opportunities for innovation. In September 2020, we launched our Social Value Model which requires central government departments to expressly evaluate the environmental, social and economic benefits of qualifying procurements.
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