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Ministry of Defence: Documents

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which hon. Members received advanced copies of his Department's policy paper entitled Defence Command Paper 2023: Defence’s response to a more contested and volatile world, published on 18 July 2023, from his Dep

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Ministry of Defence
Tabled
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
5 Jun 2025
Answer
6 Jun 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 2 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which hon. Members received advanced copies of his Department's policy paper entitled Defence Command Paper 2023: Defence’s response to a more contested and volatile world, published on 18 July 2023, from his Dep

  2. 5 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 6 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    Ahead of the publication of the DCPR 2023, the Ministry of Defence sent an advance copy of the Defence Secretary's statement to the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey. This met the requirement to give the Speaker ...

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