Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what value of contracts has his Department awarded to small-and-medium-sized firms in each year since 2020.

The Department’s SME spend is published annually on the gov.uk website as part of the ‘MOD Regional Spend With Industry’ report:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mod-regional-expenditure-statistics-with-industry-202526

Table 9 provides MOD direct expenditure with Small and Medium sized enterprises in current prices by region from 2019-20 to 2025-26.