Question follow-through · 59821
Strategic Defence Review
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to publish a defence command paper to outline how his Department plans to implement the Strategic Defence Review.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 13 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 18 Jun 2025 · 5 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
13 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to publish a defence command paper to outline how his Department plans to implement the Strategic Defence Review.
18 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jun 2025
Answer published
This Government endorses the Strategic Defence Review’s (SDR) vision and accepts all 62 recommendations. The implementation of the Review’s recommendations will form part of the main business of the Department and will be executed through a whole of UK De...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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