Dan Jarvis – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dan Jarvis on 2015-11-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what account his Department plans to take of the closure of steel plants in 2015 in the strategic defence and security review process.

Mr Philip Dunne

The Strategic Defence and Security Review will be a comprehensive review of our defence and security capabilities.

Separately, the Cabinet Office are leading a cross-Government Steel Procurement Working Group on which the Ministry of Defence is represented. The Government has published new guidelines for Departments to apply to major projects when sourcing and buying steel directly. Departments will be encouraged to take into account social impacts of competing suppliers when placing contracts directly.