Oral Question·Department for Work and Pensions
“What assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of trends in the level of (a) inflation and (b) food prices on pensioners’ incomes.”
Tabled: 29 August 2023Answered: 4 September 2023
Asked by
Gerald Jones
Labour — Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
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.