Oral Answers to Questions

Patrick Grady Excerpts

Monday 7th November 2022 Commons Chamber

[The Minister for Defence Procurement (Alex Chalk)]

I reassure my hon. Friend that Greater Lincolnshire continues to be a major investment hub for the MOD and the wider defence industry. RAF Waddington is one of the RAF’s busiest locations and will remain a base for the foreseeable future. I very much welcome the creation this year of the Greater Lincolnshire Defence and Security Network.

[Patrick Grady (Glasgow North) (Ind)]

Do the Government recognise that while the practice of double-counting spending towards the targets for overseas development assistance and for NATO defence might be a neat trick, it is a false economy?

[James Heappey]

Maybe, but we have not accounted any money against ODA in the MOD thus far this year.