Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Cat Eccles and Luke Pollard

Monday 3rd November 2025 Commons Chamber

[Cat Eccles (Stourbridge) (Lab)]

T2. Welin Lambie in Brierley Hill in my constituency designs, builds and manufactures davits for marine applications. It employs about 45 local people, uses local supply chains for its products and is really keen to win a Government contract, but sadly under the previous Government it lost out to a Spanish cruise ship company. What is the Minister doing to support British defence businesses? Will he visit Welin Lambie with me to help it work further with the Government?

[The Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry (Luke Pollard)]

We want to direct more of our increasing defence budget at British companies, including small and medium-sized enterprises. I would be happy to meet my hon. Friend to see how we can encourage her business to win more defence contracts and to feed back on how we can be better in allowing SMEs to access the defence funding that we provide.