Question follow-through · 24944
Armed Forces: Members
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department issues guidance to the armed forces on the use of barracks to host MP constituency surgeries for serving personnel.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 20 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jan 2025 · 3 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
20 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department issues guidance to the armed forces on the use of barracks to host MP constituency surgeries for serving personnel.
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jan 2025
Answer published
Guidance on the use of Ministry of Defence sites to host MP constituency surgeries is set out in Joint Service Publication 850, entitled Infrastructure and Estate Policy, Standards and Guidance.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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