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MOD trade, industry and contracts: index

Information on Ministry of Defence spending with industry and commerce.

Section removal

The 2025 edition of the trade, industry and contracts bulletin excludes the section on Major Equipment Projects. The underlying data on equipment spending plans has historically been included within the Project Performance summary table of the Defence equipment plan. However, this was not produced for 2024 and so comparable figures are currently unavailable. Within the Strategic Defence Review 2025 it was also set out that the Defence Equipment Plan would be superseded by the Defence Investment Plan.

Revisions

A scheduled revision of Trade, Industry and Contracts 2025 was made in March 2026. This provided an update on the latest UK Defence Export Statistics which were unavailable at the time of initial publication.

In the same revision, the competition and SME status of newly placed contracts in 2024/25 were also reassessed to address issues on the late reporting of contracts. This update uplifted the total value of all new contracts placed in 2024/25 by 2%. There was a negligible change on the number of contracts placed which fell by less than 1%.

Should you have any comments regarding any of these changes or revisions then please email Analysis-Publications@mod.gov.uk.

Editions

Updates to this page

Published 25 February 2014
Last updated 29 September 2025 show all updates
  1. Updated 'Future revisions'. Added 'Section removal'.

  2. Added 'MOD trade, industry and contracts: 2025'.

  3. Updated 'Revisions' and 'MOD trade, industry and contracts: 2024'.

  4. Added information on revisions made to the 2024 MOD trade, industry and contracts page, and 'MOD trade, industry and contracts: 2024'.

  5. Added information on revisions made to the 2023 MOD trade, industry and contracts page.

  6. Added: MOD trade, industry and contracts: 2023.

  7. Updated information on revisions made to the 2022 MOD trade, industry and contracts page.

  8. Added MOD trade, industry and contracts: 2022 and updated content under 'Details' heading.

  9. Addition of 'MOD trade, industry and contracts: 2021'.

  10. Updated the index page text on the removal of tables and update on balance of payments.

  11. Updated information under 'Removal of tables from trade industry and contracts statistical bulletin' and added 2020 page.

  12. Added the MOD trade, industry and contracts: 2019 page.

  13. Added MOD trade, industry and contracts: 2018 page.

  14. Added announcement on the Removal of tables from trade industry and contracts statistical bulletin.

  15. Added link to MOD trade, industry and contracts 2017 statistical bulletin.

  16. Added link to the public consultation about the proposed changes to the trade, industry and contracts statistical bulletin.

  17. Added MOD trade, industry and contracts: 2016

  18. Added new page for 2015.

  19. Included a sentence with link for upcoming release dates.

  20. Amended title

  21. Added MOD industry trade and contracts: 2014

  22. First published.