Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which contracts for drones have been awarded by (a) competitive tender and (b) single source.
In total since January 2024, The Department can identify 48 ‘drone’ related contracts valuing £3.6 billion that have been active within the Ministry of Defence.
Nine of these are marked as having a primary supplier address outside the UK.
24 of these contracts were competitively tendered, 23 were single source tenders and one unknown.