Question follow-through · 13103
Type 83 Destroyers: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make it his policy to fund the Type 83 Destroyer programme.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 25 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jul 2026 · 14 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
25 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make it his policy to fund the Type 83 Destroyer programme.
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Defence Investment Plan sets out the Royal Navy’s (RN) approach to delivering the UK’s most advanced maritime air defence capability and the rationale for this approach. Rather than delivering this capability through a small number of large and expens...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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