Question follow-through · 56863

Weapons: Factories

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any of the six munitions and energetics factories announced in the Strategic Defence Review will be built in Wales.

answeredLiz Saville RobertsMinistry of Defence

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Answering body: Ministry of Defence
Tabled: 3 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 9 Jun 2025
Answer: 9 Jun 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

3 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any of the six munitions and energetics factories announced in the Strategic Defence Review will be built in Wales.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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9 Jun 2025
Answer published
Wales already contributes to munitions development, and we hope businesses based in Wales will continue to do so as we build our always on defence munitions strategy. We will set out that detail in due course, but our overall munitions investment will hel...

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