Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Public Procurement Contracts Debate

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Department: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Public Procurement Contracts

Baroness Altmann Excerpts
Monday 7th September 2020

(3 years, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan (Con)
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Of course, all businesses will need help during the Covid crisis, and we have one of the largest programmes of help for companies and businesses in the western world.

Baroness Altmann Portrait Baroness Altmann (Con) [V]
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My Lords, could the Minister explain to the House the—[Inaudible.]—The procurement process for public contracts is often enormously cumbersome, time-consuming and costly—[Inaudible.]

Lord Ashton of Hyde Portrait Lord Ashton of Hyde (Con)
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My Lords, I am afraid the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, is completely inaudible, but I suspect the Minister might have an idea of what she is trying to say.