A group of cross-party MPs are pushing for a new law to require the UK government make a list of “high risk” suppliers that should be barred from getting government contracts and appoint a watchdog to check the list.
Alicia Kearns, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said she proposed amendments to the Procurement Bill because the current proposals in the bill don’t work.
Part of the aim of the Procurement Bill—rules on the UK’s post-Brexit public procurement—is to future proof the country’s public supply chain from national security risks.
But Kearns told Politico that ministers must share more responsibilities to make it work….