Aerospace Industry and Defence: Employment
(asked on 2nd February 2024) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what number and proportion of UK jobs are in the (a) aerospace and (b) defence industry in each constituency as of 2 February 2024.
This information is not held in the format requested.
However, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) does hold a regional breakdown of direct jobs supported in UK industry by MOD expenditure. In Financial Year (FY) 2021-22 MOD expenditure supported an estimated 209,000 direct and indirect jobs in UK industry. In that same period the breakdown of direct jobs supported by MOD expenditure in each region was:
Region | FY2021-22 |
UK Total | 130,000 |
East Midlands | 6,900 |
East of England | 6,200 |
London | 8,200 |
North East | 900 |
North West | 16,600 |
Northern Ireland | 600 |
Scotland | 12,200 |
South East | 29,100 |
South West | 37,400 |
Wales | 4,500 |
West Midlands | 5,000 |
Yorkshire and The Humber | 2,500 |
The MOD regional expenditure with UK industry and commerce and supported employment report for FY2021-22 can be found here: MOD regional expenditure with UK industry and commerce and supported employment 2021/22 (revised August 2023) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)