Question follow-through · 5528
Christchurch Sailing Club: Flags
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will grant the application by Christchurch Sailing Club for a warrant to wear a privileged Ensign.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 12 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 8 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 8 Oct 2024 · 26 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
12 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will grant the application by Christchurch Sailing Club for a warrant to wear a privileged Ensign.
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Oct 2024
Answer published
New privileged ensigns are granted only in the most exceptional circumstances. There are only a limited number of clubs whose applications have been granted since the list for privileged Yacht clubs closed in 1952. This decision is under consideration. ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Defence: Finance
18 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference, to the statement by the Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry on 15th June 2026 in column 571, at what time did that meeting begin and at what time did it finish.