Question follow-through · 61933
Procurement: Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of adjusting the cycle of procurement for SMEs so that Government contracts are issued throughout the year.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 30 Jun 2025 · 7 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
23 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of adjusting the cycle of procurement for SMEs so that Government contracts are issued throughout the year.
25 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) contracts are issued throughout the year and not just at a specific time of the year. The Acquisition pipeline for the MOD was being published twice per year and indicated the anticipated date for publication of the tenders a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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