Government efforts to spend more money through small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have lost momentum and cannot be reliably measured, the Public Accounts Committee has found.
Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock has set a cross-government target for one third of all Whitehall spending to be with small businesses by the end of the parliament.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has launched a review of the business rates system in England, which will consider how to use local retention of revenue to incentivise councils to...
