Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to improve the transparency and comparability of local authority records on procurement spending with small businesses.
The Local Government Transparency Code 2015 already sets out what procurement and spend information local authorities should publish and the format in which it should be published to ensure transparency and comparability across authorities.
I am aware some councils publish on open data hubs to enable comparability and I welcome this.