Small- and medium-sized businesses are set to win more contracts from central and local government.
Ministers have promised to get rid of the roadblocks which have previously been blamed for stopping small firms from winning a bigger share of public sector contracts. Teresa Graham, deputy chair of the Better Regulation Task Force and a member of the Small Business Council, said: "This means that for the first time small and medium sized companies can look forward to a level playing field when public contracts are up for tender."
She said that many are not even invited to bid for contracts, which tend to go to larger firms who are already well-known at local or national level.
