Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many defence procurement contracts his Department has (a) put out to open competition and (b) awarded without a competition process since 2012.

Information about the number of contracts awarded through competition and single-source arrangements is published in the Trade Industry and Contracts Statistical Bulletin, which can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mod-trade-industry-and-contracts-2017

A detailed breakdown for all years since 2009-10 is contained within the Excel workbook.