Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Defence

Oral Answers to Questions

Jeremy Quin Excerpts
Monday 15th January 2018

(6 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Gavin Williamson Portrait Gavin Williamson
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The Ministry of Defence has created 20,000 apprenticeship places in the past few years. Everything we do in our negotiations with firms, both UK based and international, aims to bring as much work content as possible into the United Kingdom.

Jeremy Quin Portrait Jeremy Quin (Horsham) (Con)
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Will my right hon. Friend welcome the often innovative work done in this field by smaller UK companies? Does he agree that they have a valuable role to play in procurement?

Gavin Williamson Portrait Gavin Williamson
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We need to work out how to bring more small and medium-sized businesses into the MOD supply chain. Sterling work has been done in the past few years, but we have to double down on that and make sure that more small and mid-sized businesses benefit from MOD contracts.