Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to safeguard defence supply chains from foreign threats.

The Integrated Review committed Her Majesty's Government to acting to address growing risks around economic security. The Defence & Security Industrial Strategy identified the MOD component to tackling these risks including assessing and monitoring threats to defence supply chains, including foreign threats. The MOD’s Defence Commercial monitor the resilience of key UK defence suppliers, and industry wide supply chain issues and risks and have established a new Directorate of Economic and Investment Security to support the new National Security Investment (NSI) Act and which will lead in the MOD on reviewing foreign investment into UK companies