Question follow-through · 41672
USA: Intelligence Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if his Department will undertake a review of intelligence-sharing structures with the US.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 31 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2025 · 5 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
26 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if his Department will undertake a review of intelligence-sharing structures with the US.
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2025
Answer published
The US and the UK have the closest of relationships; our defence, security and intelligence are completely intertwined. No two countries are as close as our two countries, and at a time like this, it would be a mistake to suggest that any weakening of tha...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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