James Cartlidge MP: written questions
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France: Nuclear WeaponsCabinet OfficeTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69452More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 11 July 2025 on Lancaster 2.0, HCWS812, who will chair the new UK-France Nuclear Steering Board.
Answer: The UK France Nuclear Steering Group will be chaired by the Presidency of the Republic on the French side and by the Cabinet Office on the UK side. The steering group will be made up of senior officials from other Ministries and organisations as required....
Answered 2 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceMinistry of DefenceTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69425More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the Minister for Defence Procurement plans to respond to the hon. Member for South Suffolk's letter dated 1 July 2025.
Answer: I responded to the hon. Member’s letter of 1 July 2025 on 29 July 2025. This was within 20 working days of receipt, in accordance with longstanding policy.
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Armaments Director: ContractsCabinet OfficeTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69424More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the contract for the acting National Armaments Director has been extended in the 2025-26 financial year.
Answer: Andy Start continues to be the acting National Armaments Director. The substantive appointment of the National Armaments Director is underway.
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUnmanned Air Systems: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69423More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2025 to Question 64478 on Unmanned Air Systems: Procurement, and with reference to the 50,000 drones to Ukraine announced in his oral statement of 17 July 2025 on Ukraine, col 476
Answer: The Ministry of Defence (MOD) considers each parliamentary question (PQ) and oral statement on their own merits and responds accordingly. An important factor in our consideration of PQ responses is the impact of the response on operational security, inclu...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: FinanceMinistry of DefenceTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69422More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Defence Investment Plan will be published before the rise of the House on 18 December 2025.
Answer: We expect to publish the Defence Investment Plan this autumn, before the Christmas recess period.
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: FinanceTreasuryTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67928More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July to Question 66215 on Defence: Finance, what is the total financial quantum of the amount of money which will count towards Defence spending in 2027 as a result of the inclusion of t
Answer: The Government has committed to spending 2.6% GDP on NATO qualifying defence spending by 2027. By 2027, the full Single Intelligence Account (SIA) budget will count towards NATO qualifying defence spending. Details of the SIA budget from 2026 to 2030 can ...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: FinanceTreasuryTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67927More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July to Question 66218 on Defence: Finance, whether all of the £5.1 billion stated under the column for 2027/28 as the Single Intelligence Account budget, in Table 5.1 of the document re
Answer: I direct the Hon. Member to my answer to question 66218, which sets out that the Single Intelligence Account budget is not being added to the defence budget.However in 2027/28, the Single Intelligence Account budget will counted as NATO qualifying defence...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFrance: Military AlliancesMinistry of DefenceTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67796More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the press release entitled New Storm Shadow and missile cooperation to boost jobs as UK and France reboot defence relationship, published on 9 July 2025, on what date the newly signed declaratio
Answer: Detailed planning of the Combined Joint Force (CJF), evolving from the currently existing Combined Joint Expeditionary Force (CJEF), is currently under way with French colleagues following the UK-France declaration announcement. We are working to define a...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFrance: Military AlliancesMinistry of DefenceTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67413More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his oral contribution in response to an Urgent Question from the Hon. Member for South Suffolk on 10 July 2025, Official Report, column 1117, whether his Department classifies the gravity bomb t
Answer: The UK and NATO have said that any employment of nuclear weapons against NATO would fundamentally alter the nature of a conflict. The UK therefore does not support the classification of nuclear weapons as either strategic or tactical.
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFrance: Military AlliancesMinistry of DefenceTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67412More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's joint press release entitled New Storm Shadow and missile cooperation to boost jobs as UK and France reboot defence relationship, published on 9 July 2025, what discussions he h
Answer: France does not participate in NATO’s Nuclear Planning Group. This is a matter for the French Government.
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFrance: Military AlliancesMinistry of DefenceTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67411More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's joint press release entitled New Storm Shadow and missile cooperation to boost jobs as UK and France reboot defence relationship, published on 9 July 2025, what assessment he ha
Answer: The possibility of coordinating UK and French independent nuclear deterrents adds a further level of strategic ambiguity, complicating the calculations of potential aggressors. Any adversary threatening the vital interests of our nations should know that ...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordEuropean Union: Military AlliancesMinistry of DefenceTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67410More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 60 of his Department's joint policy paper entitled Security and defence partnership between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, published o
Answer: The Security and Defence Partnership agreed with the European Union on 19 May is an example of this Government delivering on our manifesto commitments to strengthen European security, support growth and reinforce NATO. Implementation is progressing. Since...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: UK Relations with EUMinistry of DefenceTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67409More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress he has made on conventional weapons cooperation through thematic dialogues within the UK-EU Security and Defence Partnership.
Answer: The Security and Defence Partnership agreed with the European Union on 19 May is an example of this Government delivering on our manifesto commitments to strengthen European security, support growth and reinforce NATO. Implementation is progressing. Since...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordEuropean Union: Military AlliancesMinistry of DefenceTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67408More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 15 of his Department's policy paper entitled Security and defence partnership between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, published on 19 M
Answer: The Security and Defence Partnership agreed with the European Union on 19 May is an example of this Government delivering on our manifesto commitments to strengthen European security, support growth and reinforce NATO. Implementation is progressing. Since...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: UK Relations with EUMinistry of DefenceTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67407More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress his Department has made on countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction through thematic dialogues within the UK-EU Security and Defence partnership.
Answer: The Security and Defence Partnership agreed with the European Union on 19 May is an example of this Government delivering on our manifesto commitments to strengthen European security, support growth and reinforce NATO. Implementation is progressing. Since...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFrance: Military AlliancesMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67106More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the press release entitled New Storm Shadow and missile cooperation to boost jobs as UK and France reboot defence relationship, published on 9 July 2025, when he expects the coordination of UK a
Answer: We will enhance our readiness to coordinate our respective deterrents through nuclear dialogue and exercises, under the auspices of the new UK-France Nuclear Steering Group. We continually review our nuclear deterrence policy and posture in light of the i...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFrance: Military AlliancesMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67105More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the press release entitled New Storm Shadow and missile cooperation to boost jobs as UK and France reboot defence relationship, published on 9 July 2025, when the 50,000 strong combined joint fo
Answer: Detailed planning of the Combined Joint Force (CJF), evolving from the currently existing Combined Joint Expeditionary Force (CJEF), is currently under way with French colleagues following the UK-France declaration announcement. We are working to define a...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCASOM: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67104More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the press release entitled New Storm Shadow and missile cooperation to boost jobs as UK and France reboot defence relationship, published on 9 July 2025, how many additional Storm Shadow cruise
Answer: The MOD does not routinely provide detailed stockpile numbers for security reasons. The stockpile will compromise both new build and freshly reconditioned missiles.
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCASOM: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67103More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the press release entitled New Storm Shadow and missile cooperation to boost jobs as UK and France reboot defence relationship, published on 9 July 2025, what the in-service date is for the addi
Answer: Storm Shadow is in service today. Further refurbishment and new procurement of Storm Shadow missiles will augment the existing stockpile.
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCASOM: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67102More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the press release entitled New Storm Shadow and missile cooperation to boost jobs as UK and France reboot defence relationship, published on 9 July 2025, how many additional Storm Shadow cruise
Answer: The MOD does not routinely provide details of stockpiles for security reasons. Through a combination of continued refurbishment and new production the available stockpiles will be increasing in this Parliament. Production in the next parliament is expecte...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFrance: Nuclear WeaponsMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67101More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the press release entitled New Storm Shadow and missile cooperation to boost jobs as UK and France reboot defence relationship, published on 9 July 2025, what discussions he has had with his (a)
Answer: France does not participate in NATO’s Nuclear Planning Group. This is a matter for the French Government.
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFrance: Military AlliancesMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67100More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Government press release entitled New Storm Shadow and missile cooperation to boost jobs as UK and France reboot defence relationship, published on 9 July 2025, what assessment he has made o
Answer: The UK and France work closely together on a range of nuclear research and technology matters, including as part of the 2010 TEUTATES Treaty. Our enhanced cooperation with France will not affect the UK’s sovereign nuclear capability which has always been ...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFrance: Military AlliancesMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67099More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Government press release entitled New Storm Shadow and missile cooperation to boost jobs as UK and France reboot defence relationship, published on 9 July 2025, if he will list the personnel
Answer: It remains the case that only the UK Prime Minister and the French President can authorise the use of their respective nation's nuclear weapons.
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFrance: Military AlliancesMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67098More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Government press release entitled New Storm Shadow and missile cooperation to boost jobs as UK and France reboot defence relationship, published on 9 July 2025, what assessment he has made o
Answer: The possibility of coordinating UK and French independent nuclear deterrents adds a further level of strategic ambiguity, complicating the calculations of potential aggressors. Any adversary threatening the vital interests of our nations should know that ...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordEuropean Union: Military AlliancesMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67097More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 62 of his Department's joint policy paper entitled Security and defence partnership between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Grea
Answer: The Security and Defence Partnership agreed with the European Union on 19 May is an example of this Government delivering on our manifesto commitments to strengthen European security, support growth and reinforce NATO. Implementation is progressing. Since...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
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