Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what companies are contracted to deliver (a) food and (b) catering services for UK military personnel.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has several contracts providing food and catering services across the UK. The main three catering service providers across the MOD estate are Aramark, ESS and Sodexo.

Mitie also hold contracts with the MOD and supplies catering and other services to various sites in the UK.

Depending on their sub-contracting model, each supplier will either have a food supply contract with a preferred supplier or use wholesale distribution providers.

Food to the UK Training Estate is provided through the Leidos contract. These contracts and their providers for the UK are Bidfood, for UK Deployable Food.