Glasgow, 20 May 2026 – The Scottish Defence Procurement and Supply Chain Summit opened this morning with a clear statement of intent from the Ministry of Defence: the £50 million Scotland Defence Growth Deal will be delivered with the entire supply chain in mind, not just prime contractors. Calum Taylor, Deputy Head of Place and Industry Skills at the MoD, used his keynote to set out how the deal – part of a wider £432 million programme of defence growth deals and industry skills initiatives announced under the Defence Industrial Strategy – will be deployed. The MoD already spends over…
