Defence written question – answered at on 25 November 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what proportion of expenditure on defence procurement contracts valued in excess of £5 million was placed with small and medium-sized enterprises based in the South West in each of the last three years.
It is not possible accurately to provide the proportion of expenditure of defence procurement contracts valued in excess of £5 million placed with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the South West without incurring disproportionate cost.
However, expenditure that can be indentified as with SMEs in the South West is set out in the following table:
Financial year | South West SME Expenditure (£ million) |
2010-11 | 58.1 |
2011-12 | 34.9 |
2012-13 | 25.9 |
This analysis is based on expenditure with companies positively identified as SMEs who have a billing address in the South West geographic region. It does not include payments made on behalf of other Government Departments, by Ministry of Defence Trading Funds and executive non departmental public bodies, locally by the Department, through third parties such as prime contractors or other Government Departments, in relation to collaborative projects where the payments are made through international procurement agencies or overseas Governments, or by Government Procurement Card.
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