Small Businesses: Procurement
(asked on 1st November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of central Government public sector procurement spending awarded outside London was awarded directly to small and medium sized enterprises in the last financial year.
This question was answered on 7th November 2022
This information is not held centrally.
The latest procurement figures for 2020/21 show that across central government, £19.3 billion, representing 26.9% of spending, was paid to small and medium sized businesses to help deliver public services. This figure is an increase of £3.7 billion on the previous year, and the highest since records began in 2013.