Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Cabinet Office – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 8 February 2012.
The Minister will be aware that his own commercial representatives of SMEs have said that it will take up to two years before SMEs stop being excluded from Government contracts. Does he agree that that is utterly unacceptable? What is he going to do to make better use of EU exemptions that protect local economies?