Our Suppliers

As members of the Group’s wider workforce, the health, safety and mental wellbeing of our subcontractors is important to us, they take part in regular ‘Toolbox Talks’ covering the health and safety aspects of our sites. Each of our subcontractors must complete the Persimmon site induction course before commencing work on any of our developments.

The Group continues to take its role in combating modern slavery and human trafficking seriously, and has further developed its training provision, ensuring greater awareness of the risks in this area for staff in key functions that interact with the supply chain. The Group is a signatory to the Prompt Payment Code (PPC).

The Group’s centralised procurement department is responsible for managing the strong, longstanding relationships we hold with our main suppliers. The department seeks to secure Group-wide deals covering all major elements of our construction process. These relationships and agreements will allow the Group to establish consistent standards of quality, security of cost and supply of materials, while providing our suppliers with certainty over volumes, revenues and cash flows. We have also been engaging with our suppliers to assess the embodied carbon of our house types in order to identify materials with the most impact.

Our operating businesses work closely with a large number of regional suppliers to secure locally sourced materials. The Group works with c.4,500 suppliers and is proud to support c.52,000 jobs within its supply chain.

Our regional housebuilding operations engage with a large number of local subcontractors in the construction of our homes. This ensures that the Group secures good availability of the skilled trades that we require locally and provides our local subcontractors with continuity and consistency of work. The Group supports over 40,000* jobs across its sites.

In total, the Group supports c.92,000* jobs across its wider supply chain (2021: c.92,000*).

^{* Estimated using an economic toolkit.}