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Strategic Defence Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date the Strategic Defence Review will be published.

answeredMinistry of Defence

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Tabled
15 May 2025
Target answer date
20 May 2025
Answer
20 May 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date the Strategic Defence Review will be published.

  2. 20 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 May 2025

    Answer published

    As the Prime Minister said in his Statement on Defence and Security in the House of Commons, the Strategic Defence Review is advanced and we will bring it to the House as soon as we can.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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