Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department has taken to review the way it sustains industrial supply chains for key capabilities.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) takes the health and resilience of its supply chains very seriously, and draws on knowledge from across the Department, wider Government, Industry and Trade Associations. The Department is focusing on understanding, mapping and monitoring our most critical supply chains, and have invested in a department-wide supply chain mapping programme, the MOD also shares its intelligence and best practice on common critical supply chains and materials across government and internationally.

The Defence and Security Industrial Strategy also ensures that the Department takes a more strategic approach to industrial capability that's critical to our strategic and operational needs. including a more consistent consideration of the longer-term implications of the Government's procurement decisions.