Records show that in the last 12 months, there were 137 passes issued to employees of companies identified by us as “private defence companies”. We have defined “private defence companies” as those we can readily identify as being primarily suppliers of weapon systems or defence materiel to the Department.
These passes only allow access to MOD Head Office (Main Building, Old War Office and St. George’s Court) and are issued to individuals who hold appropriate security clearances, have a genuine business need to regularly visit one of these London Offices and have been sponsored by a Head Office Business Unit. Figures are not held centrally for passes issued in respect of other MOD London buildings.
Since 1 January 2008, building passes have been issued to employees of the private defence companies as listed. We have defined private defence companies as those we can readily identify as being primarily suppliers of weapon systems or defence materiel to the Department.
Augusta Westland
Babcock
BAE Systems
Boeing Defence UK
Cubic Defence Systems
EADS Defence and Security System
General Dynamics UK
J&S Marine
Lockheed Martin
MBDA Missile Systems
Niteworks
Northrop Grumman
Pearson Engineering
QinetiQ
Raytheon Systems
Roke Manor Research
Smiths Detection
Thales
Vega Group
Vosper Thornycroft
These passes only allow access to Ministry of Defence Head Office (Main Building, Old War Office and St. George’s Court) and are issued to individuals who hold appropriate security clearances, have a genuine business need to regularly visit one of these London Offices and have been sponsored by a Head Office Business Unit. Details are not held centrally for passes issued in respect of other MOD London buildings.