Asked by: Elliot Colburn (Conservative - Carshalton and Wallington)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of robberies by knife-point in London in each of the last three years.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Hon. gentlemen’s Parliamentary Question of 22 March is attached
Asked by: Elliot Colburn (Conservative - Carshalton and Wallington)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
What steps he is taking to help ensure that SMEs are awarded public procurement contracts.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The Government introduced a number of measures to address the barriers that SMEs face in the procurement process. Last financial year, we spent almost £2bn more than the previous year with SMEs.
Leaving the EU is an opportunity to further reform our procurement rules. We will cut red tape, drive innovation and make it easier for small businesses to win public sector business, delivering better value for taxpayers.