Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the commitment in his Department's policy paper, Opportunity and Innovation: The Defence Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) Action Plan, published on 27 January 2022, to introduce a revised Industrial Participation policy, whether his Department has published such a policy.

The Ministry of Defence's (MOD) revised Industrial Participation policy was set out in the Defence and Security Industrial Strategy. We will pilot this revised Industrial Participation Policy on an initial set of MOD programmes, asking companies to set voluntary targets for UK content in defence procurement in order to maximise the opportunities for the UK supply-chain. We are currently engaging with industry ahead of initiating these pilots, and will publish details of the policy at the conclusion of the pilot phase.