Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department will publish a league table of the proportion of SMEs in the supply chains for MOD contracts.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) along with all Government Departments publishes its spend with Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) on an annual basis. For financial year 2020-21, the last year for which figures are available, 23% of the Department's procurement spend went directly and indirectly to SMEs.

The MOD is committed to improving engagement with SMEs, and to support this, published for the first time in 2022, a dashboard of data relating to its engagement with SMEs which will be updated on an annual basis.

The dashboard can be accessed on Gov.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/central-government-spend-with-small-and-medium-sized-enterprises-2020-to-2021