Question follow-through · 128599
Fixed Interest Securities: Retail Trade
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of issuing retail bonds to support increased defence investment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 20 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 27 Apr 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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- Defence: Venture Capital · 22 Apr 2026
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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
20 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of issuing retail bonds to support increased defence investment.
22 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Apr 2026
Answer published
The majority of government borrowing is financed through the issuance of UK government bonds (known as gilts) by the UK Debt Management Office (DMO). In addition, some of the government’s financing is raised in the retail savings market through products o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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