Question follow-through · 21390
Armed Forces: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2024 to Question HL1878 on Armed Forces: Equality, if he will publish the report of the review into equality, diversity and inclusion spending in the Armed Forces.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 19 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2025 · 28 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
19 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2024 to Question HL1878 on Armed Forces: Equality, if he will publish the report of the review into equality, diversity and inclusion spending in the Armed Forces.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
The review into equality, diversity and inclusion spending in Government Departments, including Civil Service expenditure of behalf of the Armed Forces, was conducted between June 2023 and May 2024 at the request of the then Chancellor of the Exchequer. T...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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