WESTMINSTER RADAR
Search
My MPs
Menu

Question follow-through · 65590

Defence Medical Services: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that all Defence Medical Services medical officers undertaking Foundation Year (a) 1 and (b) 2 training within NHS hospitals receive (i) high-

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
7 Jul 2025
Target answer date
9 Jul 2025
Answer
14 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Defence and foreign affairs

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that all Defence Medical Services medical officers undertaking Foundation Year (a) 1 and (b) 2 training within NHS hospitals receive (i) high-

  2. 9 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 14 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    Defence Medical Services (DMS) medical officers undertake Foundation Programme training within NHS hospitals as Phase 0 Trainees prior to initial (Phase 1 and 2) military training. This is to allow DMS medical officers to develop their clinical and profes...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Autonomous Weapons

14 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Departments is taking to assess the feasibility of retrofitting existing platforms for autonomous capability.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Armoured Fighting Vehicles: Repairs and Maintenance

16 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the proportion of maintenance downtime is for (a) tanks, (b) armoured fighting vehicles and (c) armed personnel carriers across the armed forces.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Armed Forces

16 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of (a) Royal Navy, (b) British Army, and (c) RAF personnel are in frontline roles.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Space

16 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 9 of section 7.5 of the Strategic Defence Review 2025, published on 2 June 2025, what his planned timetable is for the Cabinet sub-Committee or equivalent Ministerial group to meet.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Space Technology: Finance

16 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much additional funding his Department plans to provide for space technology within the remit of the National Armaments Director.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Armed Forces: Health Services

16 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that the training received by combat medical technicians who are not qualified paramedics is recognised by civilian health care employers

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Shipbuilding

3 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he plans to take to increase shipbuilding capacity.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Defence Equipment: Imports

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent overseas on (a) equipment and (b) equipment support in 2024-25 by country.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Military Aircraft and Spacecraft: Expenditure

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent in (a) cash terms and (b) constant prices in the UK (i) aircraft and (ii) spacecraft industry in the last 20 years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Defence: Finance

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2025 to Question 904908 on Defence: Investment, when his Department plans to publish the Defence Investment Plan.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Defence: Innovation

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many proposals have been funded through the Defence and Security Accelerator delivering operational advantage via improved self-sufficiency competition.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

National Armaments Director Group

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what key performance indicators he plans to publish on the impact of the National Armaments Director Group on defence procurement.