Question follow-through · 97616

Armed Forces: Deployment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the readiness of deployable military units.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body: Ministry of Defence
Tabled: 5 Dec 2025
Target answer date: 9 Dec 2025
Answer: 15 Dec 2025 · 10 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 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the readiness of deployable military units.
9 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Armed Forces readiness is directed by the Armed Forces Plan, in which the Chief of the Defence Staff directs his Military Command Chiefs to hold a variety of Force Elements at varying levels of readiness. This readiness in aligned to our NATO Force Mo...

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