Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 108100

Defence Equipment

Tabled: 23 January 2026

Answered: 2 February 2026

Question

James MacCleary

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2026 to Question 103848 on Defence Equipment, of the £10.4 billion industry spend in the UK how much was received by (a) subsidiaries of foreign suppliers and (b) British owned

Answer

Luke Pollard

The £10.4 billion figure quoted for expenditure with UK industry is drawn from the Ministry of Defence’s Regional Expenditure statistics, which categorise spend by location of work rather than by company ownership. The underlying data does not capture inf...

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