Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 110179

Defence: Procurement

Tabled: 2 February 2026
Answered: 10 February 2026

Question

Ian Roome

Liberal DemocratNorth Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to (a) reduce losses of public funding to fraud during defence procurement and (b) increase the amount of funding recovered from those losses.

Answer

Luke Pollard
The Department has robust financial and commercial controls governing procurement, including single source regulations as set out in the Defence Reform Act 2014. In addition, we have introduced Initial Fraud Impact Assessments for major Defence programmes...

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