Question follow-through · 53817
Defence: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of expenditure by his Department on businesses in the West Midlands.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 21 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 3 Jun 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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- Army and Army Reserve: Recruitment · 14 Oct 2025
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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
21 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of expenditure by his Department on businesses in the West Midlands.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Ministry of Defence spent £1.6 billion in the West Midlands in 2023-24, which equates to £260 per person in the region and directly supported 7,100 jobs. This includes £137 million spent directly with SMEs in the same period. Through the Defence Indus...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Army and Army Reserve: Recruitment
14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average length of time is between receiving an expression of interest and receiving a formal application and the start of a training programme for a new recruit in the (a) Army and (b) Army Reserve.