Question follow-through · 50957
Army: Rifles
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the (a) Land Industrial Strategy and (b) the manufacturing industry on Project Grayburn.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 8 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 14 May 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
8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the (a) Land Industrial Strategy and (b) the manufacturing industry on Project Grayburn.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 May 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon. Members to the answer I gave on 28 April 2025 to Question 45196. In alignment with the Land Industrial Strategy, recent analysis focussed on job creation in the UK manufacturing sector, project costs and the procurement thresholds necessa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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