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Strategic Defence Review: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any contracts for the lead members of the Strategic Defence Review team have been extended beyond their original termination date.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Tabled
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
13 Feb 2025
Answer
13 Feb 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any contracts for the lead members of the Strategic Defence Review team have been extended beyond their original termination date.

  2. 13 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The Reviewers will make their final report to in the this Spring. The Secretary of State will then subsequently report to Parliament. The Strategic Defence Review will then be implemented by the Ministry of Defence.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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