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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-partnership-and-public-procurement-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2026/75",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-partnership-and-public-procurement-wales-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Information required in annual socially responsible procurement reports",
  "text": "(1) Where a contracting authority is required to publish an annual report on its public procurement under section 39(1) of SPPPA 2023, that report must include information about the estimated value of contracts awarded to contractors that satisfy the conditions in paragraph (2), expressed as a percentage figure after applying the calculation in paragraph (3).\n(2) The conditions referred to in paragraph (1) are—\n(a) the contractor provides opportunities for staff to use, learn or improve their Welsh language skills;\n(b) the contractor—\n(i) is an individual and their postal address is in Wales, or\n(ii) is not an individual and their registered or principal office address is in Wales;\n(c) the contractor is a small and medium-sized enterprise;\n(d) the contractor is a non-governmental organisation that is value-driven and which principally reinvests its surpluses to further social, environmental or cultural objectives;\n(e) the contractor has a carbon reduction plan—\n(i) that confirms the contractor’s commitment to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 in the UK and setting out the environmental measures that the contractor has in place to reduce the environmental impacts and carbon footprint associated with their business operations, and\n(ii) that is publicly available and has been created or updated within 6 months of the end of the contractor’s financial year;\n(f) the contractor has an environmental policy statement which sets out the contractor’s aims in managing the environmental impacts and aspects of its operations, and commits to a programme of improvement;\n(g) the contractor is certified by the Living Wage Foundation (a Citizens UK initiative) as an Accredited Living Wage Employer;\n(h) the contractor recognises a trade union;\n(i) the contractor—\n(i) has no workers on a zero hours contract, or\n(ii) has workers on a zero hours contract but reviews the appropriateness of these arrangements with those workers or a recognised trade union at least once every three months;\n(j) the contractor—\n(i) has an equality, diversity and inclusion policy covering its recruitment and employment practices, and\n(ii) provides all staff with regular training to understand the equality, diversity and inclusion policy and how it affects them;\n(k) the contractor is a signatory to the code of practice on ethical employment in supply chains published by the Welsh Ministers.\n(3) The information is to be provided as a series of percentages to be calculated as follows:\nStep 1\nAdd together the estimated value of all reportable contracts (a “reportable contract” has the meaning given by paragraph (4)).\nStep 2\nThe contracting authority must then determine for each reportable contract whether it is awarded to a contractor meeting any of the conditions in paragraph (2).\nStep 3\nFor each condition which is met, add together the estimated value of all the reportable contracts awarded to contractors which meet it.\nStep 4\nDivide each amount arrived at in Step 3 by the total arrived at in Step 1 and multiply by 100 to produce a percentage for each condition.\n(4) In this regulation, a “reportable contract” means a contract that—\n(a) is between one or more economic operators and one or more contracting authorities; and having as its object the execution of works, the supply of products, or the provision of services,\n(b) is awarded in the financial year to which the annual report relates, and\n(c) is not—\n(i) a framework agreement,\n(ii) a contract with an estimated value less than that of a notifiable below-threshold contract,\n(iii) an excluded contract, or\n(iv) a utilities contract.\n(5) In this regulation, “contractor” means any person who offers the execution of works, the supply of products or the provision of services on the market who has been awarded a reportable contract.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Registered charity number 1107264."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The latest version of the Code is available at https://www.gov.wales/ethical-employment-supply-chains-code-practice-guidance-and-training"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/75/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:55:13.157204+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}