Greg Mulholland – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2016-07-19.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many small and medium-sized businesses bid for a public contract in each region in the last five years.

Ben Gummer

In 2014-15, Central Government spent over £12 billion (27.1%) with small and medium sized businesses, which shows a continued year on year increase in SMEs winning public procurements.

The Government is determined to deliver its new target of one third of spend with SMEs by the end of this Parliament and we have appointed Emma Jones as the new Crown Representative for SMEs to help us achieve that.

We do not hold information on the number of public sector contracts won by small businesses or on the number of companies bidding.