Question follow-through · 79524

Armed Forces: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to recommendation 57 of the Strategic Defence Review 2025, updated 8 July 2025, what progress he has made in establishing an independent review board.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body: Ministry of Defence
Tabled: 10 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 14 Oct 2025
Answer: 19 Oct 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to recommendation 57 of the Strategic Defence Review 2025, updated 8 July 2025, what progress he has made in establishing an independent review board.
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Ministry of Defence is exploring options for an independent review board to assure national health ecosystem—Defence, the NHS, and the private sector— readiness to meet the demands of warfighting and other strategic health emergencies involving Defenc...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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