Olympic Games 2012: Contracts

To ask the Minister for the Olympics how many businesses based in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales, (d) Northern Ireland and (e) locations outside the UK have (i) registered with the London 2012 Business Network and (ii) secured Olympic contracts at each location. (312401)

I have been asked to reply.

The answer to the question is as follows:

The London 2012 Business Network hosts CompeteFor. CompeteFor is the chosen website of London 2012 for the publication of Games-related contract opportunities. Numbers of companies registered on CompeteFor and contracts awarded to CompeteFor suppliers are as follows;

Region	Registrations	Contracts awarded to CompeteFor suppliers
East of England	11,336	54
East Midlands	5,265	14
London	29,106	236
North East	2,089	12
North West	5,575	34
South East	17,596	104
South West	5,829	24
West Midlands	7,565	194
Yorkshire	4,922	20
Northern Ireland	1,109	1
Scotland	2,806	7
Wales	2,200	2
Non-UK	4,376	3
Total	100,556	707

It is important to note that these are the number of awarded contracts that have been recorded on the site by buyers and there will be other contracts that have been awarded, but not yet recorded. In total 4,700 contracts have been placed on CompeteFor.

To ask the Minister for the Olympics what the cost has been of maintaining the London 2012 Business Network in each year since its establishment. (312402)

I have been asked to reply.

The answer is as follows:

(a) CompeteFor cost £3.633 million to develop, which included concept development, specification, implementation and testing, and establishing the support structure.

(b) Running costs are as follows:

	£
Year 1 (December 2007 to March 2008)	220,000
Year 2 (April 2008 to March 2009)	1.241 million
Year 3 (April 2009 to March 2010)—projected at	1.241 million

Volume 504: debated on Wednesday 27 January 2010