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Cabinet Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

Asked by Charlie DewhirstConservativeDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled Answered 2 July 2025UIN 62331

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Government Procurement Card spend over £500 - April 2025 (Spending by Business Units no longer part of Cabinet Office), published on 29 May 2025, what the spending at Wolleys was for.

Answered by Feryal Clark

The expenditure at Woolley's, as recorded in the Cabinet Office’s Government Procurement Card data for April 2025, covered catering (tea and coffee) for URCON 25, the cross-government User Researcher Conference held in April 2025. The event brought together approximately 500 user researchers from across the public sector for a full day of in-person learning, collaboration, and professional development.

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