Louise Haigh: “For too long, [public] procurement has tried to tick too many boxes.”

These new rules will ensure the £90 billion that is spent each year through government contracts supports British jobs, skills and people in every postcode.

We won't be imposing mayors to areas that don't want it but we will be creating strategic authorities in every area of England and they will be able to hold these powers and resources as well.

I would not support attempts to invoke the Parliament Acts to force through the bill.

The idea that there wasn’t a cabal of men that were deliberately mistreating women around the government is just fanciful.