Defence Equipment and Support

Inquiry by the Defence Sub-Committee, 24 January 2023 to 23 January 2024. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• Ninth Report - It is broke — and it’s time to fix it: The UK’s defence procurement system (16 July 2023)
• Eighth Special Report - It is broke — and it’s time to fix it: The UK’s defence procurement system: Government response to the Committee’s Ninth report (20 September 2023)

Evidence sessions

• 17 May 2023: Lucia Retter, RAND Europe; Matt Uttley, King’s College London; Professor John Louth, independent author and defence analyst
• 7 June 2023: Lt. Gen (ret’d) Sir Mark Poffley, Ministry of Defence; Air Chief Marshal (ret’d) Sir Stephen Hillier, Ministry of Defence
• 21 June 2023: Francis Tusa, Defence Analysis; Robert Clark, Civitas; Dominic Nicholls, The Telegraph