Wales Office: Procurement
(asked on 27th November 2018) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2018 to Question 194070 on Wales Office: Procurement, what proportion of procurement contracts his Department awarded to SMEs in each of the last three years.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) does not record the percentage of contracts awarded each financial year with Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) companies. However, the MoJ does have a commitment that a percentage of its spend each year will be with SME’s. The below table provides the spend with SME’s for 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 against the MoJ’s target percentage.
Year | Total Procurement Spend (£m) | Direct Spend with SMEs (£m) | Direct Spend with SMEs as % | Indirect Spend with SMEs (£m) | Indirect Spend with SMEs as % | Total SME Spend as % | Central Government Target Percentage |
15/16 | £4,362 | £1,386 | 29.9% | £196 | 4.2% | 34.2% | 25% |
16/17 | £4,305 | £1,257 | 29.2% | £317 | 7.4% | 36.6% | 33% |
The figures for the MoJ spend with SME’s for 2017/2018 are currently going through the governance and approval process ahead of being published and therefore cannot be released yet. The MoJ target percentage for spend with SMEs will be set out in the MoJ Action Plan due to be published shortly. Since January 2011, details of central government contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published prior to 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive Those published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search”