Defence Equipment: Manufacturing Industries
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support defence companies.
Answered by Luke Pollard
The Defence Industrial Strategy is the defence sector plan for the Modern Industrial Strategy and underlines this Government’s commitment to making defence an engine for growth
The DIS outlines how the Government will back UK-based businesses by launching the offsets consultation, increase spending on SMEs, create a Defence Office for SME Growth, and provide additional support to companies to export. It announced an ambitious skills package of £182million to enable industry to recruit and build the well-paid jobs that will keep the UK secure in the future.
The DIS also outlines how the MOD will conduct early market engagement with industry to inform procurement decisions.
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