Aspen on Scottish Question Time

Aspen Solutions as a government approved supplier, have been praised on Scottish Question Time, in Westminster on Wednesday 18th March 2009 for the excellent service provided to the Government Agency Department of International Development (DFID), by MP Rosemary McKenna and MP Jim Murphy.

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Transcribed Extract

Rosemary McKenna (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch, East) (Lab):

Does my Right Hon. Friend agree that, although credit is important to business, so is the ability of Scottish business to get involved in emerging markets?

For example, Aspen Solutions in Cumbernauld has won a Department for International Development contract to send IT to Sierra Leone to help to build that country's infrastructure. What is he prepared to do to assist other such companies?

Mr. Murphy:

My Hon. Friend is characteristically correct on that matter.

I should declare an interest, because I think that Aspen Solutions provides the photocopier for my parliamentary office in East Renfrewshire. For the avoidance of doubt,  it is a very busy photocopier, or it certainly will be in the next few months.

The point that my Hon. Friend makes is entirely right. Small businesses in particular need to be able to access Government procurement and the contracts and portals that are available. In the past, small companies in particular have had to get through too much bureaucracy, which is why it is important that the UK Government and the Scottish Government find new opportunities to enable small businesses to compete for Government work.

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