Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November 2023 to Question 1040 on Army: Procurement, what metrics will his Department use to measure the effectiveness of the 20% weighting on social and industrial value outcomes.

The Land Industrial Strategy Objectives Framework (LISOF) constitutes a common, consistent decision-making framework at key influence points in the Army’s equipment acquisition lifecycle to embed a broader definition of value. These five pillars of the LISOF are sub-divided into 19 objectives as shown in Figure 3 (page 27) of the published Land Industrial Strategy and reflect the outcomes sought. The LISOF is not a prescriptive checklist but is to be tailored to each specific procurement – not all 19 LISOF objectives will necessarily apply in every case.