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<p>The Government has overhauled public procurement to open it up to businesses of
all sizes. On 25 February 2015, we announced that central government spent an unprecedented
£11.4 billion with SMEs in 2013-14, a record 26.1% of direct and indirect spend. This
meets our aspiration, set in 2010, that 25% of government procurement spend would
be with SMEs by the end of this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>The data on central government
spend with SMEs in 2013-14 is available on GOV.UK:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/central-government-spend-with-smes-2013-to-2014"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/central-government-spend-with-smes-2013-to-2014</a></p>
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