Question follow-through · 100134
Defence: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Defence Investment Plan will be published by the end of 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 15 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2025 · 3 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
15 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Defence Investment Plan will be published by the end of 2025.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2025
Answer published
We are working flat out between now and the end of the year to finalise the Defence Investment Plan. I am sure the Hon. Gentleman will appreciate the scale of the decisions that we need to make, including with AJAX. He will also appreciate the scale of th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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