Defence Industrial Strategy: Making Defence an Engine for Growth

The UK's Defence Industrial Strategy (September 2025), published as one of eight priority sector plans under the Modern Industrial Strategy, establishes the Defence Growth Deals framework — £250 million allocated across five regional deals (Plymouth, South Yorkshire, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) tied explicitly to the sequencing of the government's historic defence investment uplift to 2.6% GDP. It sets out how regional industrial sub-sector strengths are matched to procurement pipeline signals and investment phasing.