Uncrewed Systems: Contracts
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which (a) UK and (b) non-UK companies have been awarded contracts for drones; and what the value is of each contract.
Answered by Maria Eagle
In total since January 2024, The Department can identify 48 ‘drone’ related contracts valuing £3.6 billion that have been active within the Ministry of Defence.
Nine of these are marked as having a primary supplier address outside the UK.
24 of these contracts were competitively tendered, 23 were single source tenders and one unknown.
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