Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of defence industry jobs have been located mainly in Scotland in each of the last five years.

The table below shows the number of jobs in Scotland supported by Ministry of Defence (MOD) expenditure with UK industry and commerce. The MOD has only collected and published this data for each financial year since 2013/14, and so it is only available for the past four years.

Jobs in Scotland Supported by MOD Expenditure with UK Industry and Commerce

Note: Figures have been rounded to the nearest 100 jobs.

The data is taken from Table 8 in the supporting excel tables to the ‘MOD Regional Expenditure with UK Industry and Commerce and Supported Employment,2016/17’. The full table is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/684195/Excel_tables_relating_to_finance_and_economics_annual_statistical_bulletin_201617.xlsx

Information on how the figures were calculated can be found at:

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