Official transparency data
Ministry of Defence: spending & suppliers
Ministry of Defence has £29,226,017,540 of tracked procurement spend across 73,331 published payments to 2,145 suppliers, from Jan 2024 to Mar 2026.
Excludes £21,379,872 paid to other public bodies as funding rather than for goods or services — grant-in-aid and similar. Those payments are held in full and shown in the underlying data, but counting them as procurement would overstate what Ministry of Defence actually buys.
Amounts follow each publisher’s own basis — some publish figures including VAT, others excluding it — so totals are not directly comparable between buyers.
£29bn
tracked procurement spend
73k
payment transactions
2,145
suppliers paid
284
contracts expiring (12m)
Top suppliers by tracked spend
The largest recipients of Ministry of Defence’s published payments.
See all 2,145 suppliers
2,140 more suppliers, each incumbent’s payment history and run-rate, spend trends over time, and the 284 contracts expiring in the next 12 months — inside PSIP.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Ministry of Defence spend?
Ministry of Defence has £29,226,017,540 of tracked procurement spend across 73,331 published payments to 2,145 suppliers, covering Jan 2024 to Mar 2026. These figures come from Ministry of Defence’s own transparency publications under the Open Government Licence.
Who are Ministry of Defence’s biggest suppliers?
The largest suppliers by tracked payment value are shown above. The complete supplier list — all 2,145 of them, with each supplier’s full payment history and monthly run-rate — is available inside PSIP.
How many Ministry of Defence contracts are expiring?
Ministry of Defence has 284 contracts with an end date in the next 12 months in our records. Which specific contracts, who holds them and what they are worth is inside PSIP — the moment a contract nears expiry is the moment to engage the buyer.
Where does this Ministry of Defence spending data come from?
From Ministry of Defence itself. UK public bodies are required to publish their payments to suppliers. PSIP ingests those official publications, normalises the formats and matches suppliers against the Companies House register, so every figure traces back to a source publication — nothing is estimated.
Figures aggregated from Ministry of Defence’s official transparency publications under the Open Government Licence, supplier-matched to Companies House. Covered period Jan 2024–Mar 2026. See the full data coverage.