Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, since his Department’s Defence Industrial Strategy, published 8 September 2025, what progress his Department has made on reducing administrative procedures to improve defence procurement.

Since the publication of the Defence Industrial Strategy the Department continues to make progress in reforming Defence procurement, including the introducing a segmented approach to procurement to cut down project timescales. This is on top of work already established to simplify public procurement since the introduction of the Procurement Act 2023.