Defence Equipment: Sales
(asked on 27th May 2021) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much revenue has been generated through the sale of surplus military equipment via the Defence Equipment Sales Authority in each of the last five years.
The Defence Equipment Sales Authority (DESA) handles a wide variety of equipment, from large platforms, such as warships, tanks and aircraft, to smaller assets, such as clothing and textiles, military spares, scrap metal and office/IT equipment. DESA processes, on average, in excess of 7,000 declarations each year. A declaration may cover a single item of military equipment or a list of thousands of smaller items. As such, a substantive response covering all individual items sold over the last five years cannot easily be provided.
The number of declarations and net income from the sale of surplus equipment over the last five financial years (FY) is as follows:
| FY 2016-17 | FY 2017-18 | FY 2018-19 | FY 2019-20 | FY 2020-21 | Total |
Declarations | 7,996 | 7,547 | 7,009 | 7,324 | 6,244 | 36,120 |
Net income £million ex-VAT | 70.739 | 41.309 | 143.304 | 111.349 | 40.716 | 407.417 |