Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has made an estimate of the total number of UK jobs supported by MOD expenditure in financial year 2020-21 which were omitted from the MOD Regional Expenditure with UK Industry and Commerce and supported employment 2020-21 statistics.

Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) estimates of the number of UK jobs supported by MOD expenditure, including by Region, are dependent on verified data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)’s Business Surveys. COVID-19 delayed publication of the required ONS data for the MOD’s Regional Expenditure with UK Industry and Commerce and supported employment 2020-21 statistics. In due course we will be publishing a revision of the bulletin which will include job estimates for 2020-21.