And I'd encourage my honourable friend to encourage his local businesses to sign up.

It is very easy to do so and the best he can do is to tell them that.

Jason McCartney.

Thank you, Mr Speaker.

Will the Minister enhance and strengthen the Northern Powerhouse

by making sure Yorkshire SMEs can take full advantage of public procurement contracts.

In the measures I've been describing today, I shall.

Sir Simon Burns.

Will my right, honourable,

will my right honourable friend accept that when we are told that it's good to talk, government

departments are making it infinitely more difficult for members to contact private offices on behalf of their constituents

because of the inaccuracies and the withdrawal of the central register

of private office numbers.

Can the Minister tell us when the practice of putting the communal number in the register

will be stopped and the individual numbers of Ministers' private offices restored as it was so we can have

proper communications between Ministers' offices and members on behalf of our constituents.

Mr Speaker, I owe members an apology for this. It is true that some of the telephone numbers

in the directory were both inaccurate and some were general numbers. The revision is being

made quarterly. The next one is in March and I have instructed all departments to provide

private office numbers as members rightly expect.

Order.

Questions to the Prime Minister?

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