Question follow-through · 17024

Defence Equipment: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has instructed Defence Equipment and Support to put a hold on new procurement in this financial year.

answeredMinistry of Defence

About this written question

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Answering body: Ministry of Defence
Tabled: 29 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 4 Dec 2024
Answer: 4 Dec 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

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Votes on this topic

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Recorded timeline

29 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has instructed Defence Equipment and Support to put a hold on new procurement in this financial year.
4 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Dec 2024
Answer published
We continue to review and spend on our priorities as part of normal financial management. Our approach applies to the whole Department and is not specific to Defence Equipment and Support.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

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