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.
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.