Oral Question·Treasury
“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 9 September 2020Answered: 15 September 2020
Asked by
Zarah Sultana
Your Party — Coventry South
Answering Minister
the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry (Luke Pollard)
Defence is an engine for growth. The defence industrial strategy, which we published in September, sets out how we will reform procurement, cut contracting times, spend more of our rising defence budget with British companies, invest in frontier technologies and skills, crowd in private capital and support regional development.