Defence: Reform
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, since his department’s Defence Industrial Strategy, published 8 September 2025, what progress has been made on the Defence Reform programme.
Answered by Ministry of Defence
Defence Reform is the most significant transformation of Defence in over 50 years and over the course of this Parliament we are committed to embedding the changes required to achieve the ambitions set out in the Strategic Defence Review and the Defence Industrial Strategy.
Since April 2025, we have made substantial progress in reshaping the organisation including establishing clear accountabilities flowing from the four most senior leaders in Defence which enabled the consolidation of 17 separate organisations into four core areas designed to operate in an integrated way. Building on these foundations we are now practically implementing the Defence Operating Model (DOM) in live operation, with our central ambition being to sufficiently embed the DOM by April 2027. After this, the programme that has supported Defence Reform so far will close, with responsibility for any remaining implementation activity transitioning into business-as-usual arrangements across Defence.
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