Question follow-through · 4446
Defence: Manufacturing Industries
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to support UK defence manufacturing through government procurement.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 5 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 19 Sept 2024 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
5 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to support UK defence manufacturing through government procurement.
9 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Sept 2024
Answer published
The UK’s defence manufacturing industry is vital not only to our national security but to our prosperity and economic growth.. This Government is committed to developing a UK defence industrial base that is able to better support our own and allies securi...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Military Decorations
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