To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total value of contracts his Department has with private sector providers was in each of the last five years for which records are available.

Information about the contracts the Ministry of Defence awards, including the number and value of contracts awarded in each year since 2007-08, is available in the Ministry of Defence Trade, Industry and Contracts Statistical Bulletin 2014, which can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mod-industry-trade-and-contracts-2014