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Defence: Finance

Asked by James CartlidgeConservativeMinistry of DefenceTabled Answered 19 December 2025UIN 97807

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 1 September to Question 69422, whether it remains his plan to publish the Defence Investment Plan before the rise of the House on 18 December 2025.

Answered by Luke Pollard

We are working flat out between now and the end of the year to finalise the Defence Investment Plan. I am sure the hon. Gentleman will appreciate the scale of the decisions that we need to make including on AJAX. He will also appreciate the scale of the problems that we face, including those to do with a programme of the last Government’s that over-committed, and was underfunded and unsuited to meeting the threats that we will face in the future.

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