The UK Government's Trade Bill

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance – in the Senedd at 1:32 pm on 6 December 2017.

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Photo of Andrew RT Davies Andrew RT Davies Conservative 1:32, 6 December 2017

Minister, obviously, public procurement more generally is an important lever that you as a Government have of stimulating localised economies. The previous Welsh Government brought forward the national public procurement framework, which was to allow smaller businesses, obviously, to get a greater share of the public procurement pie. I've received many representations that businesses have found this procurement network very cumbersome, and I think Government Ministers have indicated that it hasn't been the success that, obviously, it was desired to be. What assessment have you made of that framework, and what improvements are you minded to make, to allow a greater share of the public procurement pot to arrive back to small and medium-sized businesses?