We recommend that each Government Buying Standard be made mandatory for all large public sector bodies, including the NHS, the Armed Forces and HM Prison Service, as it currently is for UK Government departments and their partner organisations. Annual reporting on compliance against public procurement policies should also be mandatory for these large public bodies: the annual reporting should in each case indicate the proportion of overall goods procured which have been sourced from UK produc...

We recommend that each Government Buying Standard be made mandatory for all large public sector bodies, including the NHS, the Armed Forces and HM Prison Service, as it currently is for UK Government departments and their partner organisations. Annual reporting on compliance against public procurement policies should also be mandatory for these large public bodies: the annual reporting should in each case indicate the proportion of overall goods procured which have been sourced from UK producers. Type: recommendation | Number: 10 | Paragraph: 39 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: We agree that transforming global FRC supply chains involves interventions on both the ‘supply side’ and ‘demand side’; we aim to improve the incentives and capacity of producers to act sustainably while directing consumers to source sustainable commodities through regulatory requirements and market