Question follow-through · 62260
Uncrewed Systems: Contracts for Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which contracts for drones have been awarded by (a) competitive tender and (b) single source.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 7 Jul 2025 · 13 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
24 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which contracts for drones have been awarded by (a) competitive tender and (b) single source.
26 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jul 2025
Answer published
In total since January 2024, The Department can identify 48 ‘drone’ related contracts valuing £3.6 billion that have been active within the Ministry of Defence. Nine of these are marked as having a primary supplier address outside the UK.24 of these contr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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