Asked by: Roger Mullin (Scottish National Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total value of defence-related contracts placed by his Department with suppliers from Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency was in each of the last five years.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The value of Ministry of Defence contracts placed in each of the last five financial years with suppliers in the Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency is given below.
| Year | Current total value of contracts (£ million) |
| 2010-11 | 4.9 |
| 2011-12 | 1.3 |
| 2012-13 | 1.8 |
| 2013-14 | 2.6 |
| 2014-15 | 42.7 |
The analysis is based on direct contracts with suppliers where the billing address has a postcode in the Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath consituency. It does not include work which may have been subcontracted to companies in the constituency from other regions of the UK and no adjustment has been made for enabling contracts that cover the whole of the MOD estate. It also does not include contracts with MOD Trading Funds or miscellaneous expenditure. The figures, therefore, are likely to be an underestimate of defence procurement in the constituency.
Since January 2011, central Government Departments have been required to publish information about the contracts they award on Contracts Finder:
https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder.
In addition, Departments publish details of spend in excess of £25,000 on the gov.uk website: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mod-finance-transparency-dataset.