Question follow-through · 99983
Defence: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking through defence spending to help increase economic growth in (a) Surrey and (b) Surrey Heath constituency.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 15 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking through defence spending to help increase economic growth in (a) Surrey and (b) Surrey Heath constituency.
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Ministry of Defence is committed to ensuring defence is an engine for growth. The Defence Industrial Strategy, published on 8 September 2025, clearly set out how we are making defence an engine for growth - investing more money in key defence areas an...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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