Oral QuestionDepartment for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 20 December 2022Answered: 9 January 2023

Asked by

Dr Rupa Huq

LabourEaling Central and Acton

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Answer from Hansard

The Prime Minister

On the question of assets, we are using the interest on the assets to help fund Ukraine and we are looking, with others, at whether it is possible to go further. Obviously, I will update the House if that is possible. But I have to say that, at a time when defence and security in Europe and the UK must be ramped up for all the reasons that the hon. Gentleman readily understands, the SNP maintaining its position of wanting to get rid of the single most effective deterrent that we have—the nuclear deterrent—really has to be explained in its historical context.