Question follow-through · 70448
Ministry of Defence: Belfast
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 63307 on Ministry of Defence: Belfast, if he will provide a timeline for a decision being made on his Department's site at Dunmore.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 3 Sept 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
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 63307 on Ministry of Defence: Belfast, if he will provide a timeline for a decision being made on his Department's site at Dunmore.
3 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Sept 2025
Answer published
Decisions on future modernisation and optimisation of the Volunteer Estate are subject to the Defence Investment Plan which is currently under consideration.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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