Question follow-through · 50534

AUKUS: Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Australian companies have been approved by the Australian Government to join the AUKUS Authorised User Community.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body: Ministry of Defence
Tabled: 7 May 2025
Target answer date: 12 May 2025
Answer: 14 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

7 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Australian companies have been approved by the Australian Government to join the AUKUS Authorised User Community.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 May 2025
Answer published
Australia currently has 344 members of its Authorised User Community. The reason that their membership numbers are higher than the UK is a result of Australia migrating their members from the Australia Approved Community (AC) which is under the Defence Tr...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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