Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) global and (b) per capita spend from his Department's Regional Expenditure with the UK Industry and Commerce and Supported Employment for 2015-16 is with spend on the construction of aircraft carriers excluded.

The Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) Carrier programme is a showcase for British industry. It involves thousands of people in our shipyards and wider supply chain and benefits a number of UK regions. However, the Ministry of Defence does not hold regional expenditure statistics which specifically exclude the QEC Carrier programme. An explanation of the methods and assumptions used in the calculation of the regional expenditure statistics can be found in the background quality report at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mod-regional-expenditure-with-uk-industry-and-supported-employment-201516