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Strategic Defence Review

Asked by Mr Mark FrancoisConservativeMinistry of DefenceTabled Answered 5 March 2025UIN 33400

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his planned timetable is to publish the outcome of the Strategic Defence Review.

Answered by Luke Pollard

The Strategic Defence Review (SDR) is well underway, and the Reviewers are reporting regularly on progress to the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Secretary of State for Defence. The Reviewers will make their final report in the Spring and the Defence Secretary will subsequently report to Parliament. The SDR will feed into the national security strategy which brings together the reviews already commissioned across Government.

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