Question follow-through · 38354
Defence Business Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to establish an MPs' hotline for the Defence Business Services.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 14 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 19 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Defence and foreign affairs
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- Veterans: Medical Records · 8 Apr 2025
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Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
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
14 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to establish an MPs' hotline for the Defence Business Services.
19 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2025
Answer published
There are no plans to establish a hotline for Members of Parliament to contact Defence Business Services officials. Ministers are accountable for the policies, decisions and actions of their Departments. Parliamentarians have direct access to Ministers, a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Veterans: Medical Records
8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average time taken is for the Defence Medical Service to release a veteran’s medical record post discharge from the Armed Services.
Veterans: Medical Records
8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to reduce the time taken for the Defence Medical Service to release veterans’ medical records to their GP.
Veterans: Medical Records
8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many former service personnel have waited over four months for their medical records to be released by the Defence Medical Service to their civilian GP.
Armed Forces: Recruitment
12 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of delays in GPs providing medical records on armed forces recruitment.
Old Royal Naval College
18 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure the long-term financial sustainability of and continued public access to the Old Royal Naval College.
Old Royal Naval College
18 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions his Department has had with Greenwich Hospital, Royal Museums Greenwich and the Greenwich Foundation on a coordinated plan to secure the future operations of the Old Royal Naval College.
Old Royal Naval College
18 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential risks to employment, public access and heritage conservation at the Old Royal Naval College.
Old Royal Naval College
18 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what support his Department is considering to address capital works required at the Old Royal Naval College.
Warships
20 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Royal Navy vessels are at (a) R1, (b) R2, (c) R3, (d) R4, (e) R5, (f) R6, (g) R7, (h) R8, (i) R9, (j) R10 and (k) R11.
Navy
20 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Royal Navy personnel are at (a) R1, (b) R2, (c) R3, (d) R4, (e) R5, (f) R6, (g) R7, (h) R8, (i) R9, (j) R10 and (k) R11.
Warships
20 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Royal Navy vessels were at (a) High, (b) Very High and (c) Extremely High readiness in each year since 2022.
Royal Fleet Auxiliary: Warships
20 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the readiness category is of (a) RFA Lyme Bay, (b) RFA Mounts Bay, (c) RFA Cardigan Bay, (d) RFA Argus, (e) RFA Fort Victoria, (f) RFA Tidespring, (g) RFA Tiderace, (h) RFA Tidesurge and (i) RFA Tideforce.