Question follow-through · 903360
Defence: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to increase procurement from UK businesses.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2025 · 6 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
18 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to increase procurement from UK businesses.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2025
Answer published
Through the Defence Industrial Strategy, this Government will be prioritising spend with UK businesses. Over recent months I have chaired 12 roundtables with 112 UK SMEs and mid-tiers, across all nations and regions of the UK, hearing about how the Govern...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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