Key facts

27%

 

£4.9bn

 

Unknown

proportion of the government's reported procurement spending that reached small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in 2014-15 (Cabinet Office estimate)

 

government's reported procurement spending directly with SMEs in 2014-15

 

number of SMEs working on government contracts

 

25%

aspiration for government's level of procurement spending to reach SMEs by 2015

8 of 17

number of central government departments that reported exceeding the government's aspiration in 2014-15

19%

proportion of the Ministry of Defence's procurement spending that reached SMEs in 2014-15 (the Ministry of Defence is currently responsible for 44% of government's procurement spending)

33%

government's target for the level of procurement spending to reach SMEs by 2020

4

the number of different methods government has used to estimate its spending with SMEs in the last five years

60%

proportion of government's spending with SMEs that was via another, larger, contractor to SMEs in their supply chains (indirect spending)