Cabinet Office written question – answered on 19 April 2016.
Frank Field
Chair, Work and Pensions Committee, Chair, Work and Pensions Committee
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government recorded in his Department's spending analysis tool that it spent on acquisitions from external suppliers in the last year for which figures are available; and how much and what proportion of central government spending the Government spent with each of the 20 suppliers which received the largest proportion of that spending in that period.
Matthew Hancock
The Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
In 2014-15 central government (excluding Network Rail) spent a total of £43.8 billion with external suppliers.
Recorded expenditure with each of the top 20 suppliers is set out in the following table:
Spend | % of total | |
Bae Systems Plc | £3.3bn | 7.6% |
Hewlett Packard Ltd | £1.3bn | 2.9% |
£1.2bn | 2.7% | |
Awe Management Limited | £1.1bn | 2.4% |
Capgemini Uk Plc | £900m | 2.1% |
Capita Plc | £700m | 1.6% |
Finmeccanica Spa | £690m | 1.6% |
£650m | 1.5% | |
£640m | 1.5% | |
BT Group Plc | £620m | 1.4% |
Airtanker Limited | £490m | 1.1% |
Atos | £490m | 1.1% |
£460m | 1.1% | |
Qinetiq Limited | £440m | 1.0% |
Connect Ltd | £430m | 1.0% |
Serco Limited | £400m | 0.9% |
£380m | 0.9% | |
Interserve Plc | £350m | 0.8% |
£340m | 0.8% | |
Carillion Plc | £330m | 0.7% |
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