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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nina Lloyd

Government could help City firms fund defence industry – taskforce report

Rachel Reeves and John Healey will hold a roundtable meeting following the report’s publication on Tuesday (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

Finance chiefs have called on the Government to help banks and pension funds support the defence industry by setting out its long-term arms investment plans.

Whitehall has been urged to produce a 10-year outlook revealing its intentions for equipment procurement and how much it expects to spend on certain capabilities.

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