Question follow-through · 9884
Ammunition: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Industrial Strategy 2025: Making Defence an Engine for Growth, if he will provide an update on his Department’s progress in meeting its target to invest £6 billion in munitions over
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 15 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 17 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 23 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
15 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Industrial Strategy 2025: Making Defence an Engine for Growth, if he will provide an update on his Department’s progress in meeting its target to invest £6 billion in munitions over
17 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jun 2026
Answer published
Work to deliver the Strategic Defence Review recommendations, including the planned investment of weapons and munitions, will be set out in the forthcoming Defence Investment Plan.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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