Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, by what percentage the annual value of payments made by his Department to the Davies Group for claims handling services has increased in each of the last five financial years.

Referring to the previous answer to Parliamentary Question (124614) the percentage value of payments made to Davies Group has increased by the proportions below for the financial years (FY) in question:

FY2021-22: 106.39%

FY2022-23: 25.05%

FY2023-24: 16.38%

FY2024-25: 753.55%