Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) mentors and (b) experts support projects backed through the Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic European Regional Office; and at what cost.

The UK is committed to supporting the Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) programme to find and accelerate dual-use innovation capacity across the Alliance.

Mentors and experts are engaged by HQ DIANA and not the Ministry of Defence (MOD). As the MOD was not directly involved in delivering the first cohort of the programme in 2024 we do not hold information on the numbers of mentors and assessors used. The MOD is taking part in the second cohort of the programme which has only just started and mentors and experts are yet to be assigned.