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Defence: Procurement

Asked by Stuart AndersonConservativeMinistry of DefenceTabled Answered 8 September 2026UIN 21650

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, since his Department’s Defence Industrial Strategy, published 8 September 2025, what progress his Department has made on reducing administrative procedures to improve defence procurement.

Answered by Ministry of Defence

Since the publication of the Defence Industrial Strategy the Department continues to make progress in reforming Defence procurement, including the introducing a segmented approach to procurement to cut down project timescales. This is on top of work already established to simplify public procurement since the introduction of the Procurement Act 2023.

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