Ministry of Defence: Iron and Steel

(asked on 16th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of steel procured by his Department in 2019 was produced in the UK.


Answered by
James Heappey Portrait
James Heappey
This question was answered on 21st January 2020

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) does not hold a central record of the origin of all steel used in defence equipment projects. This is because steel for our major programmes is mainly sourced by our prime contractors and the supply chains are complex.

The MOD does, however, collate some information about the origin of steel for projects with the largest steel requirements. This information is published annually on gov.uk at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/steel-public-procurement

The data was last published in January 2019, with the next iteration due to be published shortly.

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