Question follow-through · 47750
Defence Estates: Modernisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress his Department has made on implementing the Defence Estate Optimisation Programme.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 24 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 30 Apr 2025 · 6 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 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress his Department has made on implementing the Defence Estate Optimisation Programme.
28 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Department continues to deliver on its commitment to invest in its military estate with six infrastructure projects in construction, and four surplus sites sold in the current Parliament.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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