Question follow-through · 55652
Military Bases: Catering
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has made an assessment of whether the pay as you dine scheme in military bases is the optimal approach to meeting the cost of food and drink.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 30 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2025 · 10 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
30 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has made an assessment of whether the pay as you dine scheme in military bases is the optimal approach to meeting the cost of food and drink.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Defence Catering Strategy (DCS) was built on the comprehensive assessment undertaken through the Delivering Defence Dining Quality (3DQ) Review, led by the Institute of Naval Medicine on behalf of all three Services, and which reported in December 202...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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