Government Departments: Procurement

Cabinet Office written question – answered at on 17 October 2017.

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Photo of Jim Cunningham Jim Cunningham Labour, Coventry South

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the level of Government procurement from small and medium-sized enterprises.

Photo of Caroline Nokes Caroline Nokes Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Cabinet Office)

On 11th October 2017 we published the latest small and medium-sized enterprises’ spending performance figures:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/central-government-spend-with-smes-2015-to-2016

These show that government spent £12.2 bn in 2015-16 with small and medium sized enterprises, more than we have ever before recorded.

The Government remain committed to a challenging target to ensure that a third of their procurement spending is with small businesses by 2022, and we are continuing to take action to achieve that.

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