Industry and Regulators Committee
9 June 2026
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Industry and Regulators Committee House of Lords
00:07 - 01:47
Speaker 1
Good morning, and welcome to this meeting of the Industry and Regulators Committee. I'm Diane Hayter, and we're delighted that you're here today as we commence our work on a new inquiry which is looking at the relationship between the government and the defence-related industries. And we will shortly be issuing a call for evidence on this, which will be looking at how, in the light of the Strategic Defence Review, the Defence Industrial Strategy, a new Defence Finance and Investment Strategy, and we hope shortly, the forthcoming Defence Investment Plan, how that government-industry relationship is rising to the challenge of ensuring that the UK has the required industrial capacity to prevent, or if necessary, engage in military activity. So to start our work on this new venture, we're delighted to welcome Kevin Craven of ADS and Andrew Kinniburgh of Make UK. And I'll shortly in a moment ask you to introduce yourselves, but first just to let you know this is being transmitted live, there will be a Hansard record of it and you'll have a chance to look at that to make sure that your words have been correctly written down.
I'll introduce my fellow members of the committee as we take questions from them, if that's all right with you. But if I could just first ask you to introduce yourselves.
01:47 - 02:11
Speaker 2
Thank you, Madam Chair. My name is Kevin Craven, I'm the CEO of ADS, the trade association for aerospace, defence, space and security. We have some 1,800 members, over 95% of whom are SMEs, and we represent essentially the advanced manufacturing end of the manufacturing sector in many ways.
02:11 - 02:37
Speaker 4
Thank you, Chair. My name is Andrew Kinniburgh, I'm Director-General of Make UK Defence, which is part of Make UK, obviously the voice of British manufacturing. We have around a thousand member companies within the defence business unit within Make UK. And that, very like Kevin, vast majority SMEs, but all the big primes as well are members, so we've got a nice mix, I think.
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