Question follow-through · 127188
Defence: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Defence Investment Plan will be a ten year plan from the 2025-26 financial year.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 14 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 22 Apr 2026 · 8 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
14 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Defence Investment Plan will be a ten year plan from the 2025-26 financial year.
16 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Defence Investment Plan (DIP) is the next step in turning the Strategic Defence Review (SDR) into action. It is a 10-year plan, and the first zero-based review of Defence’s budgets in eighteen years and goes significantly further than the last Governm...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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