Defence: Procurement
(asked on 17th October 2025) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK defence scale-ups are being tracked by his Department.
This question was answered on 27th October 2025
UK Defence Innovation track relevant UK defence scale-ups. The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) Business Growth and Finance team tracks approximately 300 high-growth SMEs in real time using the Beauhurst platform. Around 70% of these companies are demonstrating scale-up potential, evidenced through annualised growth rates, revenue, equity investment and other signals.
The Business Growth and Finance team focuses on supporting SMEs with scale-up potential.