Defence Equipment: Foreign Companies
(asked on 21st November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of the UK Defence Budget was spent on equipment manufactured outside the UK in financial years (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18, (c) 2018-19, (d) 2019-20 and (e) 2020-21.
The Ministry of Defence publishes information on gov.uk for all expenditure with UK commerce and industry since 2013-14. From this it is possible to extract an overall estimate of expenditure overseas, including equipment, between 2016-17 and 2020-21, which is shown in the table below.
The industry expenditure figures below are based on the location of contracted work and exclude expenditure with foreign governments. Expenditure with the US Government through Foreign Military Sales (FMS) is available from 2018-19 onwards and has been provided separately.
Orders placed in the UK may include those placed with the UK arms of multinational companies.
Financial Year | UK Defence Budget (£million) | UK Industry Expenditure (£million) | Overseas Industry Expenditure (£million) | FMS expenditure with US (£million) |
2016-17 | 35,283 | 18,547 | 2,414 |
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2017-18 | 36,605 | 18,853 | 3,123 |
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2018-19 | 38,026 | 19,238 | 2,334 | 460 |
2019-20 | 39,834 | 20,260 | 2,944 | 808 |
2020-21 | 42,365 | 20,500 | 2,473 | 976 |
Figures for overall and UK expenditure can be found within Table 1 of the latest bulletin which can be accessed at the following link:
MOD regional expenditure with UK industry and supported employment: 2020/21 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
FMS expenditure data is set out in Table 9 of the statistics covering MOD Trade, Industry and Contracts 2022, which can be accessed via the following link:
MOD trade, industry and contracts: 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)