Question follow-through · 83364

Ministry of Defence: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of his Department's expenditure with industry groups was spent in each region in the latest period for which data is available.

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Answering body: Ministry of Defence
Tabled: 20 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 22 Oct 2025
Answer: 28 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

20 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of his Department's expenditure with industry groups was spent in each region in the latest period for which data is available.
22 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Ministry of Defence publishes annual statistics on expenditure by region, with the latest publication for the 2024-25 period available GOV.UK:https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mod-regional-expenditure-with-industry-index.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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