Question follow-through · 40763
Cybersecurity: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of the increased defence budget will be spent on developing the UK's cyber offensive capabilities.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 31 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2025 · 7 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
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of the increased defence budget will be spent on developing the UK's cyber offensive capabilities.
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2025
Answer published
His Majesty's Treasury is currently undertaking the second phase of the Spending Review, which will be announced on 11 June 2025. This will set Departmental budgets for three years from 2026-27 for RDEL and four years for CDEL, including for the Ministry ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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