Asked by: Lord West of Spithead (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Fairhead on 27 February (HL13682), what sales of defence equipment that is not used by UK armed forces and valued at £400 million or more have been made in the last five years.
Answered by Baroness Fairhead
The Department for International Trade (DIT) does not have any record of individual sales of defence equipment valued at over £400 million where the equipment is not in service with the UK armed forces.
Asked by: Lord West of Spithead (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have made any significant defence sales of UK manufactured systems that are not used by the UK armed forces.
Answered by Baroness Fairhead
The Department for International Trade’s Defence and Security Organisation supports legitimate UK defence exports, whether they are in service with the UK armed forces or not, as part of its role in helping the UK defence industry to export.
The Ministry of Defence is currently considering the Honourable Member for Ludlow’s independent report into growing defence’s contribution to UK economic growth. On a rolling 10-year basis, the UK remains the second largest global defence exporter and in 2017, the UK won defence orders worth £9 billion.