Response from Mr John Leech MP
In response to your email to Members about inadequate
answers to WPQs, John Leech would like to draw your attention
to the attached letter and PQ 237569, which we feel has been inadequately
answered by Rt Hon Rosie Winterton MP. We feel that this information
would be available via a FoI request. I am sure that this is not
the only inadequately answered question that we have submitted,
but it is the example that springs to mind.
Mr. Leech: To ask the Minister of State, Department
for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how much compensation
the private firms affected by the Government's decision to withdraw
the Post Office Card Account contract from tender will receive.
Rosie Winterton: I have been asked to reply.
The other bidders who were still in the competition at the point
at which it was halted will be reimbursed for their reasonable
bid costs. The precise amounts payable will be subject to commercial
confidentiality.
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