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Defence: Finance

Asked by Mr Mark FrancoisConservativeMinistry of DefenceTabled Answered 23 December 2025UIN 98372

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he now intends to publish the Defence Investment Plan.

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. 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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