Public Procurement: Small Businesses

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Cabinet Office – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 25 March 2015.

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Photo of Rob Wilson Rob Wilson The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office 11:30, 25 March 2015

We have obviously made a lot of progress and there is more to do, but we intend to extend and embed the reforms that we have made over the past five years. I would just remind my hon. Friend that at the last general election, only 6.5% of direct central Government procurement spend was with smaller businesses, and we had no idea how much was spent in the supply chain, so we have made huge progress.