Question follow-through · 50312
National Security
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on improving homeland security.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 6 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 May 2025
- Answer
- 14 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on improving homeland security.
8 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 May 2025
Answer published
The Plan for Change emphasises that national security is the first duty of Government. The Secretary of State for the Home Department therefore engages in regular and ongoing discussions with Cabinet colleagues to ensure a coordinated and robust approach ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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