Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many contracts his Department has in place with Babcock International; what the lengths of those contracts are; and what their date of expiry is.

Babcock is the second largest supplier to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) with 292 contracts currently in place, worth more than £20.2 billion. These contracts cover a range of equipment, capability and services across the maritime, air and land domains. The length of these contracts range from one month to 29 years, with the latest expiry date being in 2038.

Information about the contracts that we place with industry is available on GOV.uk as part of our MOD Trade, Industry and Contracts statistics:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mod-trade-industry-and-contracts-2017

In addition, MOD contracts worth over £10,000 are published on the Government's Contracts Finder website, which is available on GOV.uk at: https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder.