Oral Question·Department for Transport
“What steps he is taking to increase bus patronage.”
Tabled: 21 October 2019Answered: 24 October 2019
Asked by
Kerry McCarthy
Labour — Bristol East
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Transport
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.