Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many times the Department’s Small Business Advisory Panel has met in each of the last five years.
The SME Advisory Panel met 19 times between February 2018 and February 2023 for official Cabinet Office led SME Advisory Panel meetings. Panel members also contributed to the Baroness Neville-Rolfe led SME Roundtable on the Procurement Bill in October.
The SME Advisory Panel was set up by the Cabinet Office in 2011 and works with the Government to support start-ups and small businesses via government procurement.