Question follow-through · 34832
Department for Business and Trade: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many and what proportion of public contracts awarded by his Department since 5 July 2024 have been awarded to (a) British SMEs and (b) companies based abroad.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 3 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 6 Mar 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many and what proportion of public contracts awarded by his Department since 5 July 2024 have been awarded to (a) British SMEs and (b) companies based abroad.
6 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Department of Business and Trade has awarded and published 167 contracts over £10,000 ex VAT since 5 July 2024; 44 of which were to UK based SMEs, and 22 to companies based abroad.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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