Oral Question·Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
“If he will take steps to improve the mechanisms available to local planning authorities for tackling breaches of planning controls by Gypsies and Travellers.”
Tabled: 27 February 2024Answered: 4 March 2024
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Answer from Hansard
The Prime Minister
The hon. Member is right about the importance of national security, particularly at the moment. At the Budget we delivered a £2.9 billion increase in the Ministry of Defence budget. We are pleased to deliver the largest pay rise for our armed forces in 22 years, and we will set out the path to 2.5% in due course. That target, of course, was last met under the last Labour Government; it was not met once in the 14 years that the Conservatives were in power.