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Procurement Bill [HL]

Proceeding contribution from Lord Berkeley (Labour) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 6 July 2022. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Procurement Bill [HL].

To go back to Amendment 20, the noble Baroness gave some useful explanation of the definition of a utility. I want to go on briefly to the example that the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, mentioned, which is freeports. That presumably comes under paragraph 5 of Schedule 4, on page 86. It is not clear to me whether any of the activities of a freeport are exempt or not. In other words, the freeport gets a load of money from the Government, but does it have to comply with the procurement regulations and everything else in the Bill? Does it have to be transparent about how it complies, whether it has sent out for three quotes or whatever, and whether the contracts have been awarded fairly? That is one example, and I expect there are many others in other sectors. It would be interesting to know because when we get to Schedule 2, there are so many different definitions in there that it is quite difficult to understand which applies to what.

I am sure that, at some stage, the Ministers will try to give us some examples of all these different issues on page 81.

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Reference

823 c269GC 

Session

2022-23

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee
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