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Defence awards
Defence awards: FOI release (reference 4887)
Date received
25 February 2021
Date responded
25 March 2021
Information requested
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-03736 on 31 October 2016, whether it will provide the information for 2020-21, also broken down by what information it has regarding which companies received funding; how much they received, and the purpose of their award.
In addition to the above, I would like to also request a copy of the most recent human rights compliance checks conducted for the companies included in the response.
For clarity, the previous question S5W-03736 referred to was: To ask the Scottish Government what public funds that it has responsibility for have supported development, manufacture, or marketing in the arms trade in each of the last 10 years.
Response
As we have previously stated, Scottish Enterprise does not provide funding for the manufacture of munitions. The information requested for 2020/21 is provided in the table below:
| Company | Description | Amount |
| Babcock Marine (Rosyth) Ltd | Innovation project - support to employ an Open Innovation Manager to build a culture of technical innovation, collaboration and communication. | £22,264.00 |
| Chemring Energetics Ltd | Innovation Project – support to develop and validate a wide range of commercial products using green, sustainable, leadfree alternative materials. |
£1,269.00 |
| James Fisher Defence Ltd | Innovation - Global Engineering Process Development: The purpose of this project is to conduct a comprehensive review of all existing engineering processes. |
£26,754.00 |
| Leonardo MW Ltd | Large R&D International - support for diversification purposes including the development of products for homeland security, blue light and civilian markets. IF Organisational Development - management development programme for staff. |
£482,429.00 £20,940.00 |
| Thales UK Ltd | Large R&D international - project support to develop two new and distinct products with application and interest to defence, civilian surveillance and security markets, allowing the company to diversify its commercial portfolio. |
£98,000.00 |
Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD)
Copies of HRDD checks for Babcock International, Marine and Technology Division, Chemring Energetics UK Limited, Leonardo MW Ltd and Thales UK Ltd were provided under a previous FOISA request, and are the most recent checks conducted. No HRDD check has been undertaken for James Fisher Defence Ltd.
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