UK Inquiry Tracker

Transforming government’s contract management

Public Accounts Committee Closed Inquiry

Opened: 22 Jul 2014 Closed: 23 Mar 2015 Parliament page

Following the discovery of serious anomalies in the billing practices under the Ministry of Justice’s electronic monitoring contracts with G4S and Serco, government commissioned a series of reviews of contract management across departments. These found widespread, consistent and long-standing problems. As a result, the Cabinet Office requested all departments prepare … Read more Following the discovery of serious anomalies in the billing practices under the Ministry of Justice’s electronic monitoring contracts with G4S and Serco, government commissioned a series of reviews of contract management across departments. These found widespread, consistent and long-standing problems. As a result, the Cabinet Office requested all departments prepare contract management improvement plans. The Committee is holding two hearings on this matter, the first examining contract management improvement plans in the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice and the second looking more widely at government’s response and the changes being led by the Cabinet Office and the new Crown Commercial Service Home Office and Ministry of Justice This inquiry will assess approaches to contract management in the Ministry of Justice and Home Office including: the responses to the recent internal reviews of contract management problems; governance and accountability arrangements; contract management capability and management information; and whether good practice is being actively identified and shared. It will scrutinise what went wrong with contract management in the two departments and their efforts to improve it; and examine what more the centre of government must do to help departments improve their contract management performance. Cabinet Office This inquiry will focus on contract management across the whole of government. It will identify lessons from the overbilling and corporate renewal episodes; examine commitments to tackle long-standing problems with contract management across government; and examine the role of the new Crown Commercial Service in supporting this agenda. Relevant information National Audit Office report: Transforming contract management: public order, justice and rights (PDF 442 KB) National Audit Office report: Transforming government's contract management - Central Finance and Treasury (PDF 933 KB) Chair's statement: transforming contract management Show less

1 Report

2 Oral sessions

1 Letter

2 Events

Activity timeline 7 events

6 Feb
2017

Correspondence

Correspondence from the Cabinet Office relating to the Committee's Twenty-third Report of Session 2014–15: Transforming contract management

25 Feb
2015

Report published

Transforming contract management: Government response to the Committee's Twenty-third Report of Session 2014-15

10 Dec
2014

Report published

23rd report - Transforming contract management

10 Sep
2014

Oral evidence

Oral evidence session

10 Sep
2014

Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · Room 16, Palace of Westminster

Committee event

8 Sep
2014

Oral evidence

Oral evidence session

8 Sep
2014

Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · Room 15, Palace of Westminster

Committee event

Oral evidence sessions 2 sessions

10 Sep 2014

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8 Sep 2014

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Reports 1 report · click to expand

Title	HC No.	Published	Items	Response
23rd report - Transforming contract management	HC 585	10 Dec 2014	0	Responded

Correspondence 1 letter

6 Feb 2017 Correspondence from the Cabinet Office relating to the Committee's Twenty-third Report of Session 2014–15: Transforming contract management

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