Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 72273
Public Sector: Procurement
Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 5 September 2025
Question
Callum Anderson
Labour — Buckingham and Bletchley
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to p.53 of the document entitled Backing your business, published on 31 July 2025, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the level of SME participation in public procurement.
Answer
Gareth ThomasThe Department for Business and Trade monitors the level of SME participation in our procurement through contract award data via a live commercial dashboard which captures supplier type and specifically whether a supplier qualifies as an SME. DBT will pub...
ⓘ
This is an extract from the Parliament API. Search the full answer on Parliament.uk (UIN 72273) →