Every public figure is tied to a public record.
This is the public source register for The money is named. The bottleneck is throughput. Source links were captured/accessed on 6 July 2026. Official sources carry the factual claims; analyst and market sources are lenses, not authority.
Primary UK and alliance records
S1
UK Ministry of Defence, The Defence Investment Plan, 30 Jun 2026.
S2
UK Government, £15 billion new funding boost, 30 Jun 2026.
S3
UK Government, Defence Investment Plan funding explainer, 30 Jun 2026.
S4
UK MOD, Strategic Defence Review 2025, 2 Jun 2025.
S5
UK MOD, Defence Industrial Strategy 2025, 8 Sep 2025.
S6
UK MOD, SSCR reform announcement, 14 May 2026.
S7
Single Source Regulations Office, Contract profit guidance V8.4, 1 Jun 2026.
S8
House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, MoD follow-up Spring 2026, 7 Jun 2026.
S9
NATO, The Hague Summit Declaration, 25 Jun 2025.
S10
NATO, 2026 Ankara Summit overview.
Summit-context source only; the 5% benchmark is sourced to S9.
Market, skills and industrial-base lenses
S11
House of Commons Library, Defence Investment Plan: Key decisions, Jul 2026.
S12
ADS Group, workforce shortages and skills.
S13
Deloitte UK, defence skills gap report, Jun 2026.
S14
BCG, The Defense Technology Frontier, 9 Feb 2026.
S15
Deloitte Insights, 2026 Aerospace and Defense Industry Outlook.
S16
KPMG UK financial-services sentiment survey, 7 Jan 2026.
S17
McKinsey, European defence supply-chain consolidation analysis, 2026.
All claims are descriptive. Contract, funding and policy figures are reported as public-source fields, not as delivery assurance, future spend or readiness findings.