Question follow-through · 74218
Uncrewed Systems: Engineering
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress he has made on the development of unmanned ground vehicles for engineering support.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2025 · 13 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
2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress he has made on the development of unmanned ground vehicles for engineering support.
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Strategic Defence Review (SDR) 2025 recommended a shift towards greater use of autonomy and Artificial Intelligence within the UK’s conventional force.It stated a common digital foundation of data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), synthetic environments,...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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