Call for Scottish councils to boost local authorities

SCOTTISH councils spend a much smaller proportion of their public procurement budgets, which total about £4 billion annually, with companies within their own boundaries than Welsh and Northern Irish local authorities, a Federation of Small Businesses' survey reveals.

The FSB in Scotland, unveiling the results of the Local Procurement – Making the Most of Small Businesses study, declared yesterday that Holyrood's forthcoming Sustainable Procurement Bill "must enable councils to use their £4bn spending power to boost local economies".

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