Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department undertakes an audit of critical supply chains to source the location of components and materials for key defence programmes.

The MOD takes the health and resilience of its supply chains very seriously, and our supply chain risk and impact processes routinely draw on knowledge from across the Department, wider government, Industry and Trade Associations

We focus on understanding, mapping and monitoring our most critical supply chains to ensure we have robust mitigations in place, including an end-to-end supplier fragility process, to deal with potential supplier or critical component/material failure. We have invested in a department-wide supply chain mapping programme, and we also share intelligence and best practice on common critical supply chains and materials across government and internationally.