Ministry of Defence: Small Businesses

(asked on 20th October 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of his Department's expenditure was with UK-based businesses in the latest period for which data is available.


Answered by
Luke Pollard Portrait
Luke Pollard
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 29th October 2025

In 2024-25, The Ministry of Defence global expenditure with industry (including direct payments to industry, foreign governments and via Foreign Military Sales with the US) was £38 billion. Of this, £32 billion (84%) was for work taking place in the UK.

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