Ministry of Defence written question – answered at on 23 January 2017.
Kevan Jones
Labour, North Durham
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2017 to Question 59887, what measures will be included in the refresh of defence industrial policy.
Harriett Baldwin
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence
The 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review committed to refresh defence industrial policy and outline the further steps that the Ministry of Defence would take to help the UK Defence industry to grow and compete successfully. We are examining how we engage and do business with industry and how we take account of economic and international considerations in our acquisition choices. On 6 January we concluded a period of formal industry consultation and we are now analysing the responses.
This work will be aligned with parallel Defence initiatives on innovation and ship building, and wider Government work on the National Industrial Strategy, a green paper on which is being launched today.
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