Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 2 May 2023 to Question 182779 on Defence Equipment & Support: Pay, what commercial delivery partners his Department pays to contract staff to work at Defence Equipment and Support.

Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) currently has direct contracts for the provision of contractor staff with the following delivery partners:

Aurora Engineering Partnership

Equinox Joint Venture

Grant Thornton

Paragon Joint Venture

In addition, DE&S draws on the Crown Commercial Services framework contract with Alexander Mann Solutions and may, on occasion, use other specialist resourcing arrangements on a case-by-case basis.