Government Departments: Technology

(asked on 12th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

What estimate he has made of the proportion of public procurement spending on digital and technology services placed with small and medium-sized enterprises in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Oliver Dowden Portrait
Oliver Dowden
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
This question was answered on 12th September 2018

The Government’s Digital Marketplace has opened up opportunities for almost 5,000 small and medium businesses.

In August, we announced that over £4 billion has been spent through the Marketplace since 2012, and almost half of that - £1.9 billion - has gone to smaller businesses.

And between 2015-16 and 2017-18, spending with SMEs has almost doubled.

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