AUKUS: Companies
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Australian companies have been approved by the Australian Government to join the AUKUS Authorised User Community.
Answered by Maria Eagle
Australia currently has 344 members of its Authorised User Community. The reason that their membership numbers are higher than the UK is a result of Australia migrating their members from the Australia Approved Community (AC) which is under the Defence Trade Cooperation Treaty (DTCT) 2012. The Australian DTCT was more widely used by Australia than the UK and therefore Australia had more AC members to migrate than the UK.
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