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Strategic Defence Review

Asked by James CartlidgeConservativeMinistry of DefenceTabled Answered 7 April 2025UIN 43151

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he last met with the lead members of the Strategic Defence Review team.

Answered by Luke Pollard

The Reviewers are reporting regularly on progress to the Defence Secretary, the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Review will be published in the Spring. As the Prime Minister reported in his Statement on Defence and Security in the House of Commons, the Strategic Defence Review is advanced, and he will lay it in Parliament as soon as he can. It will help set the path for Britain's defence for the next decade.

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