Oral Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
“What recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of changes in the level of local government funding on the most deprived areas.”
Tabled: 7 January 2020Answered: 13 January 2020
Asked by
Dan Carden
Labour — Liverpool Walton
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry (Luke Pollard)
We inherited a broken procurement system of red tape, delays and high costs. Some 47 of 49 major defence programmes were delayed or not on budget when we came to office. We are speeding up procurement, buying British and aiming to increase direct SME spend by 50%, which represents an extra £2.5 billion that we will spend with UK SMEs.