Cabinet Office written question – answered at on 12 July 2012.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office
(1) how many Government contracts have been published on the Contracts Finder website in each month since the website's launch;
(2) what proportion of Government contracts (a) by value and (b) in total have been published on the Contracts Finder website in each month since the website's launch;
(3) how many contracts have been placed on the Contracts Finder website since the website's launch;
(4) what proportion of contracts (a) by value and (b) in total listed on the Contracts Finder website have been awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises since the website's launch.
As part of the Government's transparency agenda we publish on the Cabinet Office website information on the number of contracts published on Contracts Finder at:
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/transparency-progress-reports
Between February 2011 and June 2012 details of 9,506 contracts have been published on Contracts Finder, of which 3,116 (33%) were awarded to SMEs.
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