HC Deb 16 March 2004 vol 419 cc201-2W
Mr. Llwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list Welsh firms that have contracts with the Ministry of Defence; and how much departmental expenditure has been with these firms in each year since 1997. [158897]

Mr. Ingram

The Department's records show that the suppliers listed have received MOD contracts under which some or all of the work involved will have been performed in Wales. All these suppliers have received payments on these contracts exceeding £1 million in the financial year 2002–03:

  • Aircraft Maintenance Support
  • Alenia Marconi Systems
  • BAe Systems
  • Brama Brown and Root and Marshall
  • Cogent Defence and Security
  • Cowlin Construction Enersys
  • Dara
  • General Dynamics UK
  • Golley Slater and Partners
  • Irvin-GQ
  • Ilanelec Precision Engineering
  • North Midland Construction
  • Qinetiq
  • Sodexho Defence Services
  • Thales Air Defence
  • Thales Optics
  • The Royal Mint
  • Watkin Jones and Son
  • WS Atkins Facilities

The value of the contracts where some or all of the work will have been performed in Wales during the period 1997–98 to 2002–03 is as follows.

£million
1997–98 100
1998–99 Not available
1999–2000 125
2000–01 141
2001–02 252
2002–03 227