Question follow-through · 906907
Security Action for Europe
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether it is his policy to seek UK participation in the Security Action for Europe instrument.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 15 Dec 2025 · 6 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
9 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether it is his policy to seek UK participation in the Security Action for Europe instrument.
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Dec 2025
Answer published
As outlined in the Minister for Cabinet Office’s Written Ministerial Statement on 1 December, we entered good-faith negotiations on SAFE participation, but no agreement was possible that met our national interest. UK industry retains access under third-co...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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