Procurement

(asked on 3rd March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of the amount (a) his 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.


Answered by
Mike Penning Portrait
Mike Penning
This question was answered on 10th March 2015

On 25 February the Government published on GOV.UK departmental spend data with small and medium-sized enterprises, directly and through the supply chain, for 2013-4:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/central-government-spend-with-smes-2013-to-2014

For 2014-14, 37.4% of Ministry of Justice business went to SMEs, exceeding our aspiration of 25%.

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