§ Mrs. RocheTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many firms with fewer than(a) 100, (b) 50, (c) 20 and (d) 10 employees were used by his Department in each of the last five years. [29437]
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonI refer the hon. Member to my answer of 28 November,Official Report, column 590, to her question on total spend with small and medium enterprises. Our financial and procurement systems in use in 1995–96 and earlier years had no facility for categorising suppliers according to their number of employees.