Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the budget for the Domain Commercial Officers in the (a) Air and (b) Ships teams at Defence Equipment and Support is in the (i) 2023-24 (ii) 2024-25 and (ii) 2025-26 financial year.

The delivery of Defence Equipment and Support business requires a range of specialist skills embedded within delivery teams. Against an affordable demand signal from the delivery teams, Commercial function managers deploy commercial officers according to their expertise and business priorities. The number and grade of commercial officers will vary according to current demand and, as such, it would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold to provide this figure against any single team.