§ Mrs. RocheTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence 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. [29431]
§ Mr. Arbuthnot[holding answer 20 May 1996]: The Ministry of Defence does not classify the thousands of contractors with which contracts are placed each year by the size of the contractor. Researching the answer to this question could be undertaken only at disproportionate cost.