Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what mechanisms his Department have to enforce industrial participation as part of the revised Industrial Participation Policy trial.

The revised Industrial Participation Policy which is currently being piloted asks companies to set voluntary targets for UK content and articulate their plans for opening up opportunities for the UK supply chain pre-contract; they would then be supported by the Government to deliver on these plans and regularly assessed against them. As voluntary targets these will be non-contractual but will be regularly reported on.