Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of his Department's spending was with SMEs in each year since 2010.

The methodology used to calculate Government Departments’ spend with SMEs changed with effect from financial year (FY) 2013-14 to include sub-contracted spend. Since then the Cabinet Office has published all Departments’ direct and indirect spend with SMEs annually on the gov.uk website at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/central-government-spend-with-smes

Data from 2010-2013, which only covers direct spend that the MOD had with SMEs, is set out in the table below: