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AUKUS: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that small and medium-sized enterprises located in the Buckingham and Bletchley constituency benefit from AUKUS-related procurement opportunities.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Tabled
10 Jun 2026
Target answer date
15 Jun 2026
Answer
17 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that small and medium-sized enterprises located in the Buckingham and Bletchley constituency benefit from AUKUS-related procurement opportunities.

  2. 15 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    This Government is committed to strengthening UK security and boosting the UK economy. Through the Defence Industrial Strategy defence spending with small and medium-sized firms will increase by £2.5 billion by Summer 2028 - taking the total spend to £7.5...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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