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We will reform our broken defence procurement system, making it quicker, more agile and more streamlined, and giving small businesses across the UK better access to Ministry of Defence contracts—something welcomed by the Federation of Small Businesses. We will take forward our plan for Barrow, a town at the heart of our nuclear security, working with my honourable friend the Member for Barrow and Furness, Michelle Scrogham. We are providing £200 million to support the creation of thousands of jobs there. We will regenerate Portsmouth naval base, securing its future, as called for by my honourable friend the Member for Portsmouth South, Stephen Morgan. We will secure better homes for thousands of military families—the homes that they deserve, which were denied to them by the previous Government—in the constituencies of my honourable friends the Members for Plymouth Moor View, Fred Thomas, for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, Luke Pollard, and for York Outer, Mr Charters, and in Aldershot. That is the difference that this Labour Government are making.