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Military Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release entitled UK launches new Military Intelligence Services as hostile threats surge, published on 12 December 2025, how many new staff will be employed as part of est

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Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Tabled
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
5 Jan 2026
Answer
8 Jan 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release entitled UK launches new Military Intelligence Services as hostile threats surge, published on 12 December 2025, how many new staff will be employed as part of est

  2. 5 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    The establishment of Military Intelligence Services (MIS) is being delivered within existing Departmental resource, and a limited number of new military posts are being established to enable and sustain the MIS programme as it progresses toward Full Opera...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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