Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to help strengthen public sector procurement rules for small and medium-sized enterprises.

We have introduced a Procurement Bill into Parliament which will enable us to create a simpler and significantly more transparent system that will further open up public procurement to small businesses so that they can compete for and win more public contracts.

Bidding companies will only have to submit their core credentials once, onto a single digital platform, making it easier, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises, to bid for any public contract.

Along with this, we will ensure new entrants to the market can be added frequently and easily to open frameworks.