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Public Sector: Procurement

Asked by Mr Richard HoldenConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 13 January 2025UIN 21384

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2024 to Question 16510 on Public Sector: Procurement, if he will exempt SMEs from the new National Procurement Policy Statement’s requirements on (a) social value and (b) trade union recognition and access.

Answered by Georgia Gould

The government will publish a new National Procurement Policy Statement shortly. The Procurement Act, due to come into force in February 2025, requires contracting authorities to have regard to the particular barriers facing SMEs, and to consider what can be done to overcome them.

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