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Departments: BAE Systems

Volume 461: debated on Tuesday 19 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what the total cost to the public purse was of each of the contracts between BAe Systems and his Department in each of the last five years; (141313)

(2) which defence procurement contracts are in place between his Department and BAe Systems;

(3) what the value is of each defence procurement contracts in place between his Department and BAe Systems.

Central records indicate the Ministry of Defence currently has some 785 separate direct contracts in place with BAE Systems. These are listed in an extensive table which I have placed in the Library of the House. The number excludes small-value local purchase orders, contracts placed on behalf of other nations and other Government departments and those where BAE Systems is a subcontractor or a member of an industry consortium. The approximate value of each contract is indicated in the table placed in the Library by reference to a value band.

The combined value of the 785 contracts, as at 8 June 2007, was some £24,893 million. I am withholding the precise value of individual contracts and the total cost to the public purse as its release would, or would be likely to, prejudice commercial interests. The scale of total payments made to major BAE Systems divisions over the past five financial years on all direct contracts, as published by the Defence Analytical Services Agency, is shown in the table.

£ million

Organisation

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

BAE Systems (Defence Systems) Ltd

50-100

25-50

25-50

25-50

10-25

BAE Systems (Land and Sea Systems) Ltd

10-25

BAE Systems (Operations) Ltd

>250

>500

>500

>500

>500

BAE Systems Defence Ltd

25-50

5-10

5-10

5-10

BAE Systems Electronics Ltd

>250

>500

>500

>500

>500

BAE Systems Integrated System Technologies Ltd

100-250

BAE Systems Land Systems (Munitions and Ordnance) Ltd

100-250

100-250

BAE Systems Land Systems (Weapons and Vehicles) Ltd

50-100

100-250

BAE Systems Marine (YSL) Ltd

100-250

50-100

100-250

50-100

50-100

BAE Systems PLC

5-10

100-250

100-250

BAE Systems /Rockwell Collins Data Link Solutions LLC

5-10

BAE Systems Avionics Ltd

100-250

100-250

BAE Systems (Combat and Radar Systems) Ltd

25-50