Oral Question·Ministry of Defence
“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 28 October 2025Answered: 3 November 2025
Asked by
Cat Eccles
Labour — Stourbridge
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Defence
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry (Luke Pollard)
We want to direct more of our increasing defence budget at British companies, including small and medium-sized enterprises. I would be happy to meet my hon. Friend to see how we can encourage her business to win more defence contracts and to feed back on how we can be better in allowing SMEs to access the defence funding that we provide.