Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 15 October 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what expenditure on procurement his Department has contracted to (a) small, (b) medium-sized and (c) large businesses in each month since May 2010.
holding answer
Since May 2010, DCLG's proportion of procurement spend with small and medium-sized enterprises has steadily increased. From a starting point of 12% in 2010 (based on DCLG Central spend), we have broadened our ambitions and now including our key arm’s length bodies our latest data show that we have reached a figure of 25.9% for a rolling 12 months to August 2012 which meets the Cabinet Office aspiration for all Whitehall Departments.
Cabinet Office publish data on small and medium-sized enterprises spend by Departments. Based on spend within this fiscal year and our performance of 23% for the first quarter, DCLG is placed third within all central Government Departments.
The following table sets out the detailed expenditure on small, medium and large organisations since May 2010 for my Department and its arm’s length bodies where available.
Expenditure (nearest £ million) by business types | |||||
Central department | Arm’s length bodies | ||||
Small | Medium | Large | Small and Medium | Large | |
Financial year 2010-11 | |||||
May 2010 | 1.1 | (1)-0.4 | 8.1 | — | — |
June 2010 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 13.2 | — | — |
July 2010 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 14.4 | — | — |
August 2010 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 10.5 | — | — |
September 2010 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 12.3 | — | — |
October 2010 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 9.2 | — | — |
November 2010 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 8.1 | — | — |
December 2010 | 2.2 | (1)-0.1 | 11.6 | — | — |
January 2011 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 3.1 | — | — |
February 2011 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 6.8 | — | — |
March 2011 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 15.3 | — | — |
Total | 15.7 | 6.9 | 112.7 | 19.2 | 68.4 |
Financial year 2011-12 | |||||
April 2011 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 23.6 | 1.0 | 3.8 |
May 2011 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 5.6 | 1.5 | 4.1 |
June 2011 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 13.5 | 1.5 | 4.5 |
July 2011 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 4.2 | 1.8 | 2.7 |
August 2011 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 6.2 | 0.9 | 4.2 |
September 2011 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 12.5 | 4.0 | 4.6 |
October 2011 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 9.1 | 3.8 | 3.8 |
November 2011 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 5.6 | 3.8 | 5.5 |
December 2011 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 12.9 | 4.1 | 5.1 |
January 2012 | 0.19 | 0.5 | 6.5 | 3.9 | 6.6 |
February 2012 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 5.5 | 4.0 | 4.2 |
March 2012 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 14.7 | 8.1 | 0.5 |
Total | 7.1 | 9.5 | 119.9 | 38.4 | 49.6 |
Financial year 2012-13 | |||||
April 2012 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 8.5 |
May 2012 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 12.1 | 3.2 | 5.9 |
June 2012 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 8.7 | 3.4 | 4.8 |
July 2012 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 6.2 | 3.9 | 4.2 |
August 2012 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 9.1 | 5.0 | 5.5 |
Total | 2.9 | 2.5 | 40.3 | 19.4 | 28.9 |
(1) The negative figures are a consequence of cancellation of invoices. |
The DCLG Group is making a 44% real terms saving against its running costs over this spending review period by 2014-15. This equates to savings of over £570 million of taxpayers' money by 2014-15, helping tackle the deficit we have inherited from the last Administration.
Notwithstanding these liabilities, as outlined above, the Department has an ambitious Action Plan to increase the proportion of spending going to small and medium-sized enterprises by March 2015. The plan can be found online at:
www.communities.gov.uk/corporate/jobscontracts/procurement/smallmediumenterprises/
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