Question follow-through · 75424
Strategic Defence Review
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 3 September 2025 to Question 73377 on Strategic Defence Review, by when does he expect the infrastructure pillar to have been established.
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 5 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 8 Oct 2025 · 33 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
5 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 3 September 2025 to Question 73377 on Strategic Defence Review, by when does he expect the infrastructure pillar to have been established.
9 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Oct 2025
Answer published
As set out in the National Security Strategy and the Resilience Action Plan (RAP), protection and defence of Critical National Infrastructure is a central strand of the Cabinet Office-led cross-Government Home Defence Programme. This is overseen centrally...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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