Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of public spending on defence equipment has been allocated to equipment made in the UK in each of the last three years.

The proportion of the Ministry of Defence's (MOD) equipment spending allocated to equipment made in the UK is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. However, information on the Department's expenditure with industry and other regional information is published on GOV.uk at the following link:

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

Additionally, total MOD equipment expenditure (not just with UK industry) can be found at the following link, but this is not broken down by country:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/defence-departmental-resources-index.