Defence: Procurement
2026-06-11 · Ministry of Defence · 9368 · Official question
Question
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.
Answer
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...