{"value":{"id":1734366,"askingMemberId":4742,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2024-10-15T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2024-10-17T00:00:00","uin":"9219","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing defence expenditure to 2.5% of GDP by 2030 for small businesses in supply chains.","answeringBodyId":11,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Defence","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":483,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2024-10-24T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role in a vibrant and flexible UK defence industry, delivering innovation and supporting a wide variety of high quality jobs across the United Kingdom. The Strategic Defence Review and the Defence Industrial Strategy will both help make defence a more attractive market for SMEs by encouraging small businesses to contribute fully in Defence procurement and make the most of future growth within the Defence supply chain.</p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Defence: Expenditure","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1734366","method":"GET"}]}