Question follow-through · 22889
Armed Forces and Defence Equipment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason the annual armed forces equipment and formations statistics was not published on 31 October 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 9 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 14 Jan 2025 · 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
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
9 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason the annual armed forces equipment and formations statistics was not published on 31 October 2024.
14 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jan 2025
Answer published
The UK Armed Forces Equipment and Formations 2024 publication has been delayed due to a data quality review and has a provisional release date of February 2025. This is stated in the Statistics release calendar: UK armed forces equipment and formations 20...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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