Defence Equipment
Commons · Question 108100 · Tabled 23 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Defence · Official record
Answered 2 Feb 2026
Question
Asked by James MacCleary
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2026 to Question 103848 on Defence Equipment, of the £10.4 billion industry spend in the UK how much was received by (a) subsidiaries of foreign suppliers and (b) British owned
Answer
Answered by Luke Pollard, 2 Feb 2026
The £10.4 billion figure quoted for expenditure with UK industry is drawn from the Ministry of Defence’s Regional Expenditure statistics, which categorise spend by location of work rather than by company ownership. The underlying data does not capture inf...