§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will detail all the contracts on which his calculation of £136 million savings in the civil service market-testing programme is based; what was the value of each contract; what was the saving in each case; and what were the main items by which the savings were secured in each major case.
§ Mr. HagueThe £136 million detailed in the question is the value of savings achieved by the Government's market testing programme. As at 31 March 1994 this376W Department had awarded 55 contracts with a total value of £62.5 million which have achieved efficiency savings averaging some 32 per cent. Details of individual contract values and savings are commercial in confidence information and cannot be provided.