§ Mrs. RocheTo ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage how many firms with fewer than(a) 100, (b) 50, (c) 20 and (d) 10 employees were used by her Department in each of the last five years. [29439]
§ Mr. Sproat[holding answer 20 May 1996]: In the past, neither my Department nor its agencies have kept a specific record of a supplier's size. This historical information could therefore be obtained only by incurring disproportionate cost.
However, my Department and its two agencies are now recording the size of suppliers invited to tender and this information will be available in future.