| Heading: |
Public Sector: Procurement |
| Question ID: |
1814217 |
| UIN: |
HL8569 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-18 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4689 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Agnew of Oulton
|
| Asking Member handle: |
|
| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Lord Agnew of Oulton
|
| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to require their suppliers to use secure container images, in a manner comparable to the United States 2024 executive order on securing the software supply chains of federal government suppliers. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
|
| Date answered: |
2025-07-02 |
| Date answer corrected: |
|
| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
3792 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
|
| Answering Member handle: |
WhitchurchGirl
|
| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@WhitchurchGirl
|
| Correcting Member ID: |
|
| Correcting Member display name: |
|
| Correcting Member handle: |
|
| Correcting Member Twitter reference: |
|
| Answer text: |
In February 2025 Cabinet Office published the updated National Procurement Policy Statement (NPPS). The statement requires all public sector contracting authorities in scope to mitigate supply chain and national security risks by ensuring appropriate cont... |
| Original answer text: |
|
| Comparable answer text: |
|
| Answering body ID: |
216 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology |
| Tweeted: |
true |