Defence: Procurement
(asked on 13th October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to Answer of 27 September to Question 51435, if he will provide a breakdown of (a) direct and (b) indirect procurement spend to SMEs.
This question was answered on 21st October 2022
The published estimates for financial year 2020-21, the latest year for which figures are available, indicate that £0.95 billion or 4.9% of Ministry of Defence's total procurement spend went directly to SMEs; and £3.5 billion or 18.1% of MOD's total procurement spend went indirectly to SMEs. These figures are updated annually and can be found on gov.uk Central Government spend with SMEs - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)