The Defence Industrial Strategy 2025 (DIS) is the defence sector plan of the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy, published by MOD on 8 September 2025 to make defence 'an engine for growth' through procurement reform, regional Defence Growth Deals, a £182m skills package, and strengthened export support. It sits beneath the Strategic Defence Review 2025 and is operationalised through the Defence Investment Plan (replacing the Equipment Plan), the Export Control Order 2008 regime, and the Refreshed National Shipbuilding Strategy.
DIS reframes defence procurement around domestic industrial capacity, SME participation (50% spend uplift target vs FY23/24) and regional growth, while the parallel rise to 2.5% GDP defence spend by 2027 (3% next Parliament) puts unprecedented capital flow through the industrial base. The credibility test now rests on the still-unpublished Defence Investment Plan and on whether export-control liberalisation (Lancaster House 2.0, the four-nation export agreement, SI 2025/1197) actually unlocks the export pipeline DIS promises.
DIS is in active implementation. Scotland (£50m, 12 March 2026) and Northern Ireland (£50m, 22 April 2026) Defence Growth Deals have launched; the Defence Investment Plan remains unpublished as of late April 2026, prompting a Defence Committee one-off evidence session and a sharply critical PAC report. The SME Action Plan is in draft, the Offset Policy consultation has closed, and SI 2025/1197 came into force on 16 December 2025.
The defence sector plan of the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy, published 8 September 2025; commits £250m to five Defence Growth Deals, a £182m Defence Industry Skills Package, SME spend uplift, offset and export reforms.
The strategic predicate for DIS: warfighting readiness, NATO-first, whole-of-society resilience, 2.5% GDP by 2027 / 3% next Parliament. DIS is the industrial expression of SDR 2025.
10-year plan covering 8 growth-driving sectors; DIS is the defence sector plan within this umbrella.
Strategic-framework predicate for DIS, sitting alongside SDR 2025.
Amends the Export Control Order 2008, the assimilated Dual-Use Regulation and the assimilated Torture Goods Regulation; in force 16 December 2025. Implements Wassenaar/MTCR updates, lifts the UK arms embargo on Armenia and Azerbaijan, and updates dual-use lists for quantum computing, advanced semiconductor manufacturing and additive manufacturing.
Four-nation treaty making it easier for UK defence businesses to export within the partnership; acceded 9 December 2025 (HLWS1139).
Companion publication to DIS 2025 mapping the regional and national defence industrial footprint (employment, capacity, sites) including Northern Ireland.
Cross-Government shipbuilding strategy; PQ 129666 confirms an update is pending (response delayed by Prorogation, April 2026).
Fulfils SDR commitment to bring forward a Defence Diplomacy Strategy; classified in full, public summary published 24 March 2026.
Sets the conditions for long-term collaboration between MOD and industry for land equipment; PQ 128310 confirms ongoing alignment work with DIS.
Sets out how defence will increase use of additive manufacturing — a technology pillar within the DIS framework.
How MOD plans to build supply chain resilience — directly engaged by DIS's resilience pillar.
Trails the £182m Defence Industry Skills Package as the centrepiece of the DIS skills pillar.
Second of five Defence Growth Deals funded from the £250m DIS regional allocation; supports defence tech start-ups and SMEs in NI.
First of five regional Defence Growth Deals launched 12 March 2026; £50m allocation.
Consolidates defence innovation under a single operating model; a key DIS delivery vehicle.
Announces the five-deal architecture funded from £250m under DIS.
Announces export-support reforms accompanying DIS, including financial backing and cutting red tape.
Bilateral declaration deepening defence-industrial cooperation with Ukraine; channels DIS's 'battlefield-tested innovations' commitment.
Inquiry launched March 2026 examining whether the SDR's vision and the DIS-mediated procurement reforms are deliverable within the announced fiscal envelope.
Welcomes cross-Government work on industrial resilience but raises concerns about implementation; sits alongside recommendations on the National Armaments Director's role.
Recommends that the National Armaments Director, as the key post for implementing SDR and DIS policy changes, give evidence to Parliament.
PAC report sharply critical of MOD's failure to publish a current Equipment Plan and concerned about the credibility of the planned Defence Investment Plan replacement.
PAC publicly registers concern that MOD failed to provide a full Equipment Plan in 2023 and that the Defence Investment Plan succession is opaque.
Long-standing PAC scrutiny line on Equipment Plan affordability, the baseline against which the Defence Investment Plan replacement is being judged.
Underlying committee scrutiny report on the 2021 predecessor regime; the institutional memory under which DIS 2025 lands.
Predecessor SME framework; an updated annual SME Action Plan is committed under DIS but per PQ 127437 will not be published before Prorogation.
Initial Statement of Intent that scoped what became DIS 2025; published alongside HCWS273 announcing the consultation and timetable.
The 2021 DSIS published by the Coalition / Johnson government; DIS 2025 replaces this regime.
Explicitly a DIS-mandated consultation on offset measures.
The opening leg of the same DIS Offset Written Consultation.
Today I am announcing plans to develop a new Defence Industrial Strategy that will be published in late spring 2025.
Why linked: John Healey's 2 December 2024 WMS (HCWS273) committing to DIS publication.
increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2027 and 3% in the next Parliament when fiscal and economic conditions allow
Why linked: Foreword to SDR 2025, the strategic predicate underwriting DIS.
The Defence Industrial Strategy committed £250 million to fund all five Defence Growth Deals across the UK, and announced an £182 million Defence Industry Skills Package.
Why linked: Repeated MOD answer to PQs 122217 and 122218.
The Ministry of Defence has set an ambitious target to increase direct and indirect spending by 50% compared to FY 23/24 baseline.
Why linked: Answer to PQ 129308 on agreed target SME spend.
Why linked: Cited by workspace synthesis
Ministry of Defence (MOD) guidance for raising a concern and whistleblowing in Defence.
A commitment to improving gender balance in Defence.
In response to: Women in Defence Charter
How UK Defence can deepen its international relationships with allies and partners to support defence and wider foreign policy.
Why linked: Industrial Strategy umbrella policy paper — DIS is its defence sector plan.
Strategy document setting out a new economic approach to backing the UK’s strengths, with ambitious plans for 8 high-growth sectors.
The UK has joined a defence exports treaty with France, Germany and Spain which will make it easier for UK defence businesses to export.
An overview of how the MOD supports employment, skills, investment, and economic growth across all parts of the United Kingdom.
Why linked: Filled the "Regional industrial capacity utilisation strategies (e.g. Northern Ireland defence manufacturing)" gap via web research
A companion document to the Defence Industrial Strategy 2025 that maps the UK's regional and national defence industrial footprint, detailing defence capacity, employment, and key industrial sites by region and nation including Northern Ireland. It provides the evidential basis for …
The defence sector plan of the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy.
Why linked: The full Defence Industrial Strategy 2025 policy paper PDF — direct primary source for the framework.
The full Defence Industrial Strategy policy paper published by the Ministry of Defence on 8 September 2025, which contains the £182m skills package as a core chapter, covering Defence Technical Excellence Colleges, the Defence Universities Alliance, regional STEM initiatives, and …
Why linked: HTML version of the National Security Strategy 2025 — companion to the policy paper.
HTML version of the National Security Strategy 2025 — companion to the policy paper.
In response to: National Security Strategy 2025: Security for the British People in a Dangerous World
Why linked: National Security Strategy 2025 — strategic context within which DIS 2025 and SDR 2025 operate.
National Security Strategy 2025 identifies the main challenges the UK faces in an era of radical uncertainty and sets out a new Strategic Framework covering all aspects of national security and international policy
A root-and-branch review of UK Defence.
In response to: Defence Advanced Manufacturing Strategy
This document describes how defence will increase the use of additive manufacturing to realise its potential benefits.
How the Ministry of Defence's science and technology plans will be delivered including funding and collaboration opportunities for industry and academia.
In response to: Defence Industrial Strategy - Statement of Intent
A statement of intent by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) regarding the Defence Industrial Strategy.
Why linked: Filled the "Defence Investment Plan / Equipment Plan (successor procurement framework)" gap via web research
The twelfth annual summary for MOD’s plans to deliver and support the equipment our armed forces need to do the jobs we ask of them.
Why linked: Command Paper on reform of Single Source Contract Regulations — the procurement-reform pillar within DIS.
This Command Paper sets out a series of proposed reforms to the Single Source Contract Regulations (SSCRs) and seeks stakeholder views.
In response to: Defence Equipment & Support Strategy
The strategy details Defence Equipment & Support’s approach to equip our armed forces with the edge to protect our nation.
A strategy outlining how the Defence Aviation sector will contribute to the UK’s Net Zero ambition, while ensuring its continued operational effectiveness.
In response to: Defence Supply Chain Strategy
The Defence Supply Chain Strategy (DSCS) outlines how Defence plans to build resilience within our Supply Chains.
Sets the conditions for long-term collaboration between the MOD and industry, supporting co-investment in capability delivery and innovation.
A refreshed strategy for a globally successful, innovative and sustainable shipbuilding enterprise.
Improving MOD's relationship with Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), focusing on procurement models and how best to support innovation and exports for UK suppliers.
Why linked: Defence and Security Industrial Strategy 2021 — the named predecessor regime DIS 2025 replaces.
The Defence and Security Industrial Strategy sets out a new strategic approach to the UK’s defence and security industrial sectors.
This document initiates a strategic approach to the UK’s combat air sector.
This strategy details how we will work with our external partners and what contribution we will make to support innovation efforts.
Ministry of Defence revised policy for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) following the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review.
An update on how government and the UK defence industry are working together to meet the needs of customers around the globe.
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The Defence Industrial Strategy 2025 (DIS) — published 8 September 2025 1 by the Ministry of Defence as the defence sector plan within the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy — restructures UK defence industrial policy around procurement reform, regional Defence Growth Deals, a £182m skills package and stronger export support, all sitting beneath the Strategic Defence Review 2025 2 and its 2.5%-by-2027 fiscal trajectory. Operational delivery is now under way: the Scotland (March 2026) 3 and Northern Ireland (April 2026) 4 £50m Defence Growth Deals have launched; export-control liberalisation has shipped through SI 2025/1197 5 and the four-nation Agreement on Defence Export Controls 6; and UK Defence Innovation has consolidated DASA, DIU and DE&S FCI 7. The live credibility risk is the still-unpublished Defence Investment Plan, on which the Defence Committee held a one-off evidence session 8 and the Public Accounts Committee has registered sharp criticism.
DIS sits at the centre of an unusually busy regime architecture. The strategic predicate — Strategic Defence Review 2025 1 and National Security Strategy 2025 2 — was settled by summer 2025, with the Modern Industrial Strategy framing defence as one of eight growth-driving sectors. DIS itself 3 was published 8 September 2025, followed within weeks by the UK Defence Footprint companion mapping the regional industrial base 4 and the major skills boost pre-launch 5. Delivery vehicles have been consolidated: the Defence Reform programme of April 2025 6 restructured MOD into four areas including a National Armaments Director group 7; UKDI consolidated three innovation bodies in July 2025 8; and the April 2026 ALB Reforms WMS confirmed DECA's merger into DE&S 9. On the export side, SI 2025/1197 10 came into force on 16 December 2025 — implementing Wassenaar/MTCR updates, lifting the UK arms embargo on Armenia and Azerbaijan, and updating dual-use lists for quantum computing, advanced semiconductor manufacturing and additive manufacturing — and the UK acceded to the four-nation Agreement on Defence Export Controls on 9 December 2025 11. Two of the five Defence Growth Deals have launched: Scotland (£50m, 12 March 2026) 12 and Northern Ireland (£50m, 22 April 2026) 13. The MOD has set a 50% SME spend uplift target vs FY23/24 (≈£2.5bn) 14, but the Defence Investment Plan replacing the Equipment Plan remains unpublished.
The defining feature of the last 90 days is parliamentary frustration at the Defence Investment Plan's non-publication. The Defence Committee held a one-off oral evidence session on 24 March 2026 specifically on the impact of the delay to the Defence Investment Plan on industry 1, and PAC's prior 32nd Report — The Future of the Equipment Plan — together with its 'extremely disappointed' press notice frames MOD as accountable for the gap. Two Lords PQs (HL16616, HL16617) tabled on 21 April 2026 went unanswered before Prorogation, and Chief Secretary James Murray took a 28 April 2026 Commons oral question on DIS effectiveness from John Milne LD 2. Delivery has progressed in parallel: the Northern Ireland £50m Defence Growth Deal launched on 22 April 2026 3; the MOD ALB Reforms WMS 4 of 23 April restructured delivery bodies; and PQs 122217-8 confirmed both the £250m Defence Growth Deals envelope and the £182m Defence Industry Skills Package as DIS commitments 5. The UK-Ukraine Enhanced Security and Defence Industrial Collaboration Declaration of 17 March 2026 channelled the 'battlefield-tested innovations' element of DIS into a bilateral framework.
The single most important near-term milestone is publication of the Defence Investment Plan 1. PAC's June 2025 32nd Report argued the predecessor Equipment Plan was unaffordable; without a published successor, the DIS's industrial commitments — £250m for five Growth Deals 2, £182m for skills 3, 50% SME spend uplift ≈£2.5bn 4, six new munitions factories backing the £1.5bn 'always-on munitions pipeline' 5 — float untested. Three remaining English-region Defence Growth Deals are pending within the £250m envelope; Lord Forbes's March 2026 Lords oral question 6 flagged English regional impact as a live scrutiny line. The annual SME Action Plan with a direct spend target is expected post-Prorogation per PQ 127437 7. The National Shipbuilding Strategy update is pending per PQ 129666 8. The Defence Committee has demanded the National Armaments Director give public evidence 9 — watch for whether MOD complies. Externally, the 2.5% GDP defence spending threshold is due to be reached in 2027 10; the first NAO post-DIS audit and the first OBR Spending Review treatment of the DIS envelope will set the external credibility baseline that PAC will weaponise. Watch also for further Export Control Order amendments tracking Wassenaar / MTCR plenary outcomes, given SI 2025/1197 was the second amendment in 2025 11.
The headline risk is fiscal-credibility lag: SDR 2025's 2.5%-by-2027 / 3%-next-Parliament trajectory 1 and DIS's £250m+£182m named envelopes have no externally validated costing absent the Defence Investment Plan, and NAO's December 2023 finding that the Equipment Plan was unaffordable 2 remains the live baseline. PAC has explicitly recorded its disappointment at the absence of a public spending plan. A second risk is implementation opacity around the National Armaments Director post and UKDI's role — both are central to delivery but neither has appeared publicly to explain how DIS commitments translate into procurement decisions. Inferred from corpus gap: the £50m Scotland and £50m Northern Ireland Defence Growth Deals together account for £100m of the £250m envelope, leaving three English deals at an average ≈£50m each undisclosed. Inferred from corpus gap: no published NAO successor audit to the December 2023 Equipment Plan study exists in the corpus, meaning the regime's most important external scrutiny input is currently absent.
This briefing treats DIS 2025 (the defence sector plan within the Modern Industrial Strategy, published 8 September 2025 1) as the live regime, with the 2021 Defence and Security Industrial Strategy as predecessor. The 2018 Combat Air Strategy 2, the 2023 DE&S Strategy 3, the 2023 Defence Aviation Net Zero Strategy 4 and the Defence Diplomacy Strategy 2026 5 are noted as adjacent sub-strategies rather than core DIS instruments. Defence personnel policy and recruitment, the operational deployment of UK forces, and detailed defence R&D funding decisions sit outside scope per the thread definition; defence nuclear enterprise updates are included only where they intersect with industrial capacity (e.g. Sheffield Fo
Bills and Acts this regime substantively depends on. Links go to the bill's own thread on this site (where available) and to bills.parliament.uk.
Primary statutory power under which SI 2025/1197 amends the Export Control Order 2008 — the legally binding layer through which DIS's export-control commitments operate.
Provides the Single Source Contract Regulations framework; DIS's procurement-reform pillar includes proposed SSCR reform consulted on in 2023, making DRA 2014 a continuing statutory anchor for non-competitive defence procurement.
Cross-cutting procurement statute under which MOD's 1,398 major contracts since July 2024 [37454] are now awarded; DIS's procurement reforms operate within the Procurement Act regime including its national security exemptions.
The Defence Industrial Strategy 2025 is not a statute; it is a strategy paper sitting at the apex of a four-layer doctrinal stack and binding only through the procurement, licensing and fiscal instruments beneath it. The TOP layer is strategic framing — the Strategic Defence Review 2025 1, the National Security Strategy 2025 2 and the Modern Industrial Strategy [candpk=8358] together set the threat picture, the 2.5%/3% fiscal trajectory and the eight-sector growth framing within which defence is named a 'sector plan'.
The SECOND layer is the strategy itself — DIS 2025 3 published 8 September 2025 — together with its operationalising companions: the UK Defence Footprint 4, the £182m Defence Industry Skills Package 5, £250m for five Defence Growth Deals 6, the Defence Diplomacy Strategy 7 and predecessor regimes (DSIS 2021 [candpk=424326]; SME Action Plan 2022 8; Land Industrial Strategy 9; Refreshed National Shipbuilding Strategy 2022 10; Defence Supply Chain Strategy 2022 11).
The THIRD layer is the delivery apparatus reorganised through Defence Reform — Defence Equipment & Support, the new UK Defence Innovation (UKDI) consolidating DASA / DIU / DE&S FCI 12, the National Armaments Director group 13, and the ongoing ALB consolidation including DECA's merger into DE&S 14. This layer DELIVERS DIS through individual procurement decisions and Defence Growth Deal designations; it does not change DIS's strategy text.
The FOURTH layer is the binding legal layer — the Export Control Act 2002 / Export Control Order 2008 regime (amended by SI 2025/1197 15), the assimilated Dual-Use Regulation and Torture Goods Regulation, and bilateral treaty instruments like the Agreement on Defence Export Controls 16 and Lancaster House 2.0 17. THIS is where DIS's export pillar becomes legally operative: liberalised licensing under the four-nation agreement, updated dual-use list entries for quantum computing and advanced semiconductors, and the lifting of the UK arms embargo on Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The doctrinal point is that DIS commitments — '50% SME spend uplift', '£182m skills', 'five Growth Deals' — are politically binding but legally unenforceable in themselves; they bind only through Defence Investment Plan budget allocations (the document Parliament has been waiting for since autumn 2025), procurement contract structures, and the export-licensing regime. PAC has flagged the credibility gap [candpk=30477] and the Defence Committee has demanded the National Armaments Director appear to explain delivery 13.
Geographically-targeted £50m investment package from the £250m DIS regional envelope; first awarded to Scotland (12 March 2026) and Northern Ireland (22 April 2026).
The successor to the annual Equipment Plan announced in SDR 2025; will set out how SDR's vision will be delivered through procurement and capability planning.
Concept from SDR's £1.5bn additional investment for energetics and munitions, encompassing six new munitions factories.
Defence is one of eight growth-driving sectors under the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy; DIS is its sector plan.
Publication of the Defence Investment Plan — the single most-watched DIS milestone; PAC and Defence Committee already on record demanding it. Multiple PQs (117847, HL16616, 128310) tabled in March-April 2026.
Publication of the annual SME Action Plan with direct spending target — confirmed pending by PQ 127437.
Government response to the DIS Offset Written Consultation (closed 23 December 2025).
Three further Defence Growth Deal launches (English regional allocations) within the £250m envelope; Scotland and NI accounted for £100m.
Update to the National Shipbuilding Strategy — PQ 129666 confirms an update is pending.
First credibility test of the SDR/DIS fiscal trajectory — UK defence spending due to reach 2.5% of GDP by 2027.
Defence Committee scrutiny of the National Armaments Director — committee has recommended public evidence.
Further Export Control Order amendments tracking Wassenaar / MTCR plenary outcomes — SI 2025/1197 was the second of two amendments in 2025.
Treats DIS 2025 as the operational architecture for delivering SDR 2025's industrial pillar — explicitly positioning defence as 'an engine for growth' through Defence Growth Deals, the £182m skills package and a 50% SME-spend uplift target. Frames the Defence Investment Plan as the costed delivery instrument that will follow and treats the export-control liberalisation (SI 2025/1197, Agreement on Defence Export Controls) as a complementary growth lever.Sep 2025Nov 2025Jul 2025Apr 2026Dec 2025
Tension with Public Accounts Committee, Defence Committee
Stated political owner of DIS — used the November 2025 'Factories of the future' WMS to anchor the £1.5bn munitions/energetics package, the July 2025 Defence Reform WMS to establish UKDI as the delivery vehicle, and the original December 2024 commitment to publish DIS in late spring 2025 (slipped to September 2025).Nov 2025Jul 2025Dec 2024
Delivers DIS through Parliament — gave the 8 September 2025 Commons launch statement and the April 2026 ALB Reforms WMS consolidating defence delivery bodies. Treats DIS as the answer to the persistent Defence Investment Plan publication question.Sep 2025Apr 2026
Lords mirror on every DIS WMS — Defence Export Controls Agreement, Factories of the Future, ALB Reforms, Defence Diplomacy Strategy. Provides cross-house continuity and answers Lords PQs on industrial-base resilience [37809, 37808].Dec 2025Nov 2025Apr 2026Mar 2026
On the Modern Industrial Strategy umbrella: positions defence as one of eight growth-driving sectors and frames DIS as DBT-MOD joint policy. Owns the Export Control Joint Unit and the SI 2025/1197 export-control update, including the Armenia/Azerbaijan embargo lift.Sep 2025Nov 2025
Welcomes the expansion of the industrial base and engagement of HM Treasury and DBT but is sharply critical of implementation pace — explicitly recommends measuring and benchmarking the defence industrial base annually, demands the National Armaments Director give evidence, and held a one-off oral evidence session on the impact of the Defence Investment Plan delay on industry. Position: supportive of regime architecture, hostile to implementation opacity.Mar 2026Nov 2025Nov 2025
Tension with Ministry of Defence
On the Scotland Defence Growth Deal and shipbuilding: pushes for stronger Scottish defence industrial footprint, has inquired into 'Securing Scotland's Future: Defence Skills and Jobs' (Oct 2025) and previously the Defence in Scotland: military shipbuilding inquiry (2023). Welcomes the March 2026 £50m Scotland Defence Growth Deal as partial response.Apr 2023Apr 2026
On defence spending in Northern Ireland: launched inquiry in Feb 2024 noting MOD spending in NI is significantly below NI's industrial potential; the £50m NI Defence Growth Deal of April 2026 responds to this scrutiny line.Apr 2026
Independent baseline: the December 2023 Equipment Plan report found the Plan unaffordable with the largest deficit since 2012. NAO has not yet published a successor audit; its 2023 finding remains the external credibility benchmark against which DIS and the Defence Investment Plan are measured.Dec 2023
On DIS effectiveness: tabled the 28 April 2026 Commons oral question to the Chief Secretary on what discussions HMT has had with the Defence Secretary on DIS effectiveness — an LD scrutiny chip targeting fiscal credibility.Apr 2026
On DIS regional growth and jobs: tabled the March 2026 Lords oral question on potential impact of DIS 2025 on economic growth and job creation in English regions — focusing scrutiny on whether the £250m Growth Deal envelope reaches English regions outside the announced Scotland and NI deals.Mar 2026
On regional DIS impact (Northern Ireland): tabled the February 2026 Commons oral question on potential impact of DIS 2025 on Northern Ireland — a precursor to the April 2026 NI Defence Growth Deal launch.Feb 2026
On regional DIS impact: persistent backbench scrutiny voice on Northern Ireland impact of DIS through October 2025 and February 2026 oral questions; supportive of regional-deal architecture.Oct 2025Feb 2026
On DIS SME pillar: tabled the January 2025 Commons oral question to Maria Eagle on DIS support for defence-sector SMEs — opened the parliamentary scrutiny track that eventually produced the 50% SME spend uplift target and the pending SME Action Plan.Jan 2025
On DIS strategic coherence: former Defence Committee Chair, intervened in both the 2021 DSIS debate and the September 2025 DIS Commons launch; provides continuity Conservative scrutiny questioning whether the regime delivers warfighting capability quickly enough.Sep 2025
On the need for a defence industrial strategy: asked the original July 2020 oral question to Ben Wallace about developing a defence industrial strategy that opened this entire thread, and re-engaged in the March 2021 DSIS debate; institutional memory voice favouring a strong industrial pillar.Jul 2020
On DIS scrutiny in the Lords: spoke in both the September 2025 DIS Lords statement and the March 2021 DSIS debate; provides continuity backbench Labour scrutiny on procurement and industrial-base questions.Sep 2025
On DIS as former MOD Lords minister: spoke in the September 2025 DIS Lords statement and the March 2021 DSIS debate; provides Conservative continuity voice on procurement reform.Sep 2025
On DIS industrial-base / exports angle: crossbench peer with business background; spoke in both the September 2025 DIS Lords statement and the 2021 DSIS debate.Sep 2025
On the 2021 DSIS predecessor regime: as Minister for Defence Procurement delivered the 23 March 2021 Commons statement launching DSIS — the regime DIS 2025 replaces.Mar 2021
On the original DSIS review: as Secretary of State for Defence issued the March 2020 review-of-DSIS statement and the 2022 NSS Refresh — the institutional history underpinning the current regime.Mar 2020