Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2026 to Question 7492 on Ministry of Defence: Lanyards, how much his Department, excluding its executive agencies and arm's-length bodies, spent on lanyards in (a) 2025 and (b) 2026 to date.

Specific spend on lanyards within the Department is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Lanyards may be procured through a range of mechanisms, including purchasing cards, office supplies contracts, marketplace solutions, print and promotional merchandise contracts, security-related contracts, and local purchasing arrangements. There is no centrally managed lanyard contract, catalogue or commodity code through which expenditure can be readily identified. As a result, establishing total departmental spend (and/or designs) would require the manual examination of transactions across multiple procurement systems and purchasing routes.