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Military Aircraft and Spacecraft: Expenditure

Commons · Question 80272 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence · Official record

Answered 17 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Neil Shastri-Hurst

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent in (a) cash terms and (b) constant prices in the UK (i) aircraft and (ii) spacecraft industry in the last 20 years.

Answer

Answered by Luke Pollard, 17 Oct 2025

Whilst we are unable to separate out “Aircraft” and “Spacecraft”, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) currently publish an annual bulletin on MOD Regional Expenditure with Industry which includes details on MOD’s spending with UK industry in the combined catego...