Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October to Question 67853 on Defence: Procurement, if he will deposit a copy of the annual survey of his Department’s larger suppliers covering their spend with SMEs that stems from UK Ministry of Defence contracts in the House of Commons Library.

The results of the annual survey are published by the Cabinet Office (Central Government spend with SMEs - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)) for all Government Departments. For the Ministry of Defence, the result of the survey shows that for financial year 2020-21 the Department spent £3.539 billion indirectly with SMEs, which equates to 18.1% of our total procurement spend.