Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 83088

Defence: Manufacturing Industries

Tabled: 17 October 2025

Answered: 27 October 2025

Question

Ben Obese-Jecty

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 23 of the Defence Industrial Strategy: Making Defence an Engine for Growth, published on 8 September 2025, CP 1388, what criteria would need to be met to define an academic institution as p

Answer

Luke Pollard

The Defence Industrial Strategy adopts a whole of society approach to the defence sector and redefines the UK defence industrial base to include academic institutions based on the contribution they make to defence Research and Development and the provisio...

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