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Strategic Defence Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which recommendations of the Strategic Defence Review are yet to be implemented.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Tabled
9 Jun 2026
Target answer date
11 Jun 2026
Answer
17 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which recommendations of the Strategic Defence Review are yet to be implemented.

  2. 11 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    The Strategic Defence Review (SDR) sets a vision for long-term transformative and visionary change in Defence over the course of the next decade and beyond. Implementation of the SDR began immediately after the Government endorsed the SDR's 62 recommendat...

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