But evidence presented to the committee by the Centre for Local Economic Strategies showed how targeting procurement spend into dilapidated areas can regenerate them.
The first, he said, was whether the I.R.A.'s vague assertion that its "strategies and disciplines will not be inconsistent with the Good Friday Agreement" meant an end to "targeting, procurement of weapons, so-called punishment beatings and so forth".
The target for procurement from renewable energy agreed late last year shows the way.
National IRS activities including mapping and enumerating IRS target areas, procurement of insecticide and spray equipment, and training of spray teams, expanded from 5 to 36 districts from the period 2003 2008.
Karel Thomas, executive director of BUFDG, said: "The Higher Education sector is facing multiple challenges to manage costs, and alongside the targets for procurement set out in the Diamond Report (2011 report of efficiency in universities), the £1bn University Challenge is an initiative that is ambitious and very worthwhile.
Mr Blair had said then what was required was "that the ceasefires are indeed complete and unequivocal: an end to bombings, killings and beatings, claimed or unclaimed; an end to targeting and procurement of weapons; progressive abandonment and dismantling of paramilitary structures actively directing and promoting violence".
This was a cluster-randomized controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of a sequential stage-matched intervention to bring about dietary behaviour change by targeting the procurement and consumption of five dietary components: fruits, vegetables, salt, sugar, and oil.
With the government's target of £3bn procurement savings exceeded by £1bn, a year early.
We welcome the review's inclusion of a procurement target for small businesses in the government supply chain.
But the need is huge beyond these amounts, and the revised target for further procurement is 1 million blankets or half a million quilts - so that 2 blankets or 1 quilt per person can be distributed.
