MOD trade, industry and contracts: 2025
Information on Ministry of Defence spending with industry and commerce.
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This bulletin provides figures on the composition and scope of the department’s expenditure, information on the impact of defence spending on the wider economy, and compares the MOD’s spending to that of other departments and other countries.
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 Within the Strategic Defence Review 2025 it was also set out that the Defence Equipment Plan would be superseded by the Defence Investment Plan.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.
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A scheduled revision was made to 'MOD trade, industry and contracts: 2025'.
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