Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the amount (a) her Department and (b) its agencies and non-departmental public bodies spent on procurement was paid to small and medium-sized enterprises (i) directly and (ii) through the supply chain in the last year for which figures are available.

On 25 February 2015, the Government published the latest spend data relating to central government spend with SMEs for 2013/14. This sets out procurement spend data for all Whitehall Departments including Defra, and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies. The information can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/central-government-spend-with-smes-2013-to-2014