Question follow-through · 9368
Defence: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer given on 8 June 2026 to Question 6003, what criteria his Department uses in procurement to determine whether suppliers are high-risk.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 12 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 22 Jun 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer given on 8 June 2026 to Question 6003, what criteria his Department uses in procurement to determine whether suppliers are high-risk.
16 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Department does not use a single fixed definition of a “high risk supplier”. Instead, suppliers are assessed case by case against factors including financial fragility, exposure to high-risk geographies, criticality to defence capability, supply chain...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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