Question follow-through · 8400
Ports: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of UK port infrastructure for rapid deployment, military logistics and wider defence resilience.
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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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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
9 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of UK port infrastructure for rapid deployment, military logistics and wider defence resilience.
11 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) works closely with Government partners and with the civil maritime industry to ensure it has a detailed understanding of the capabilities, capacities and resilience of UK ports to support military activity. The MOD has increa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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