Ministry of Defence
We protect the security, independence and interests of our country at home and abroad. We work with our allies and partners whenever possible. Our aim is to ensure that the armed forces have the training, equipment and support necessary for their work, and that we keep within budget.
Shadow Ministers / Spokeperson
Liberal Democrat
Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer)Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Defence)
Conservative
James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk)Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
Scottish National Party
Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus and Perthshire Glens)Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Defence)
Green Party
Ellie Chowns (Green - North Herefordshire)Green Spokesperson (Defence)
Liberal Democrat
James MacCleary (LD - Lewes)Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Defence)
Junior Shadow Ministers / Deputy Spokesperson
Conservative
Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer)Shadow Minister (Defence)
Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford)
Shadow Minister (Defence)
Earl of Minto (Con - Life peer)
Shadow Minister (Defence)
Stuart Anderson (Con - South Shropshire)
Shadow Minister (Defence)
Junior Shadow Ministers / Deputy Spokesperson
Conservative
Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon)Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Defence)
David Reed (Con - Exmouth and Exeter East)
Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Defence)
Ministers of State
Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer)Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport)
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Calvin Bailey (Lab - Leyton and Wanstead)
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans and People)
Louise Sandher-Jones (Lab - North East Derbyshire)
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
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Acts of Parliament created in the 2024 Parliament
A Bill to establish, and confer functions on, the Armed Forces Commissioner; to abolish the office of Service Complaints Ombudsman; and for connected purposes.
This Bill received Royal Assent on 3rd September 2025 and was enacted into law.
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Commons Select Committees are a formally established cross-party group of backbench MPs tasked with holding a Government department to account.
At any time there will be number of ongoing investigations into the work of the Department, or issues which fall within the oversight of the Department. Witnesses can be summoned from within the Government and outside to assist in these inquiries.
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Defence Committee: 24 Current Inquiries
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(View all written questions)The Ministry of Defence is starting a communications and engagement plan with those Service leavers who have an ongoing ex-Regular and Recall liability, as well as related audiences such as their families and employers.
This is taking forward the Strategic Defence Review recommendation to reconnect with the Strategic Reserve, who offer a deep pool of prior military skills and experience which could help provide strength in depth given heightened geopolitical instability and threats.
We wish to help relevant individuals clarify their recall liabilities and encourage them to update us with their latest skills and experience and interest in further service. We will provide more details in due course.
As the Minister for the Armed Forces and Chief of Defence Staff have trailed in recent Parliamentary Select Committee evidence sessions, we are planning to invite up to around 1,000 Strategic Reservists to join the wider UK Active Reserve and Regular Force participation in NATO’s Exercise STEADFAST DEFENDER in spring 2027. This will be on a voluntary basis and for short durations. We will provide more details as plans mature.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans and People)
The Ministry of Defence is starting a communications and engagement plan with those Service leavers who have an ongoing ex-Regular and Recall liability, as well as related audiences such as their families and employers.
This is taking forward the Strategic Defence Review recommendation to reconnect with the Strategic Reserve, who offer a deep pool of prior military skills and experience which could help provide strength in depth given heightened geopolitical instability and threats.
We wish to help relevant individuals clarify their recall liabilities and encourage them to update us with their latest skills and experience and interest in further service. We will provide more details in due course.
As the Minister for the Armed Forces and Chief of Defence Staff have trailed in recent Parliamentary Select Committee evidence sessions, we are planning to invite up to around 1,000 Strategic Reservists to join the wider UK Active Reserve and Regular Force participation in NATO’s Exercise STEADFAST DEFENDER in spring 2027. This will be on a voluntary basis and for short durations. We will provide more details as plans mature.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans and People)
I refer the hon. Member to the answer we gave on 19 March 2026 to Question 120766 to the hon. Member for Romford (Mr Rosindell):
The Royal Navy maintains a high state of operational readiness across its core capabilities, including the Continuous At Sea Deterrent, Carrier Strike, frigates, destroyers, submarines, aviation, the Royal Marines and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. The Fleet is deployed globally to protect the UK’s security and interests, working alongside allies and partners.
It is important to understand readiness as a constant cycle with ships moving regularly through maintenance, training, deployment and recovery phases. For reasons of operational security, the Ministry of Defence does not give detailed information on past or current levels of readiness for individual Royal Navy warships.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Strategic and operational reporting arrangements for the Armed Forces Recruiting Service (AFRS) will be in place from 1 April 2027. This will include operational dashboards and performance measurement, with role-based reporting instituted once six months of AFRS data has been collected.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans and People)
Boxer is a world-class vehicle that will boost our soldiers in a variety of military missions and scenarios across the globe. As I said in Parliament on 19 October 2026, the programme is hugely successful, delivering important capability and national benefit.
The Army will absolutely have the ability to recover and support Boxer vehicles on the battlefield, such as through the Boxer support variants and the wider force, including the Heavy Wheeled Recovery Vehicle which we will procure.
There has been no change to our order of 623 Boxer vehicles, of which over 500 are being built here in the UK, and we are buying 72 Boxer RCH Artillery vehicles.
The work in Telford, Stockport and plenty of other locations across the country is backing more than 1,000 British jobs.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Armed Forces Recruiting Programme continues to progress in accordance with the agreed phased service commencement dates between January and April 2027. Implementation of the full solution is due to be completed by 30 September 2027.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans and People)
The integrated digital platform is being delivered through the Armed Forces Recruiting Service (AFRS) programme. It is designed to provide a single, tri-Service recruitment platform, including the common data model, bringing together recruitment information and processes across the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force into a single governed architecture.
The programme plans for the integrated tri-Service digital platform to be available from Service Commencement Date 3 (SCD3) which is the point all three services will have transitioned.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans and People)
The Defence Investment Plan includes provision to replace HMS Protector with a more modern vessel variant, maintaining the United Kingdom’s essential presence and supporting Government activities in the Arctic and around the British Antarctic Territory. Work is ongoing to assess the requirement and potential options for delivering the future ice patrol capability, under Project Shackleton. Further detail will be released in due course.
As my hon. Friend will know, we inherited a plan to operate HMS Protector into the late 2030s, but no plan to replace the vessel. We assessed that this was not a sustainable approach and therefore made provision in the Defence Investment Plan to replace our ice-breaking capability.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Armed Forces Commissioner operates independently of Government in the exercise of her statutory functions. The Ministry of Defence has no role in the decisions concerning the scope and conduct of the Commissioner’s investigations. Any considerations related to the duration of the call for evidence on Phase 1 Training Establishments are matters for the Commissioner.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans and People)
At Report Stage on 20 October 2026, the Government reiterated its commitment to delivering the manifesto pledge and will bring forward an amendment at Third Reading to deliver a visa fee waiver.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans and People)
Ministers were not asked to approve the review because it was not a centrally coordinated Army policy review. Reviews were undertaken by individual Corps and Regimental Associations. Information on any changes made to affiliations is therefore not held centrally, and there is no centrally produced final outcome or report to publish.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans and People)
Ministers were not asked to approve the review because it was not a centrally coordinated Army policy review. Reviews were undertaken by individual Corps and Regimental Associations. Information on any changes made to affiliations is therefore not held centrally, and there is no centrally produced final outcome or report to publish.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans and People)
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has established governance, assurance and contractual arrangements to identify administrative errors, understand their causes and hold suppliers to account where appropriate. These include performance monitoring, quality and assurance activity, and the investigation of identified failures.
The MOD actively manages supplier performance through its contractual arrangements. Where contractual requirements are not met, appropriate remedies may be applied, including Key Performance Indicator Failure Charges and other contractual deductions. Where contracts permit, contractual remedies have been applied in relation to Armed Forces pension administration.
Any further claims arising from pension administration errors are considered on a case-by-case basis, taking account of the circumstances of each case, including the extent of supplier responsibility and the steps taken to mitigate and recover any loss.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans and People)
The Department is taking significant steps to improve and refurbish military housing. Under the plans set out in the Defence Housing Strategy, 9 in 10 Defence homes will be modernised or upgraded, including over 10,000 homes that will be substantially refurbished or replaced through major renovation or new build programmes. This will be supported by £9.2 billion of investment over the next decade and delivered through the Defence Housing Service.
The Department is already delivering improvements to drive immediate and tangible benefits for Service families with upgrades already completed on 1,250 of the poorest-quality homes, while further improvement programmes are progressing across the UK Defence estate this Financial Year, including bringing 1,000 previously unavailable homes back into use, while targeted work to modernise occupied properties continues.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans and People)
The Defence Investment Plan provides an additional £470 million over four years for security technology and infrastructure. Restricted Airspace has been applied to 50 Defence sites, with a further 170 expected in December 2026, while £15 million has been invested in remotely piloted and counter-uncrewed aerial systems and training over the past 18 months.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
We are committed to fully funding the Defence Investment Plan and meeting our NATO commitment of 3.5% of GDP on defence by 2035. At the Spending Review, we will set the target date for 3%.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The National Resilience Public Awareness Campaign is a Cabinet Office-led programme of public engagement delivered as part of the Home Defence Programme. The detail provided within the answer to Question 27196 remains extant. The launch of the campaign on 22/10/2026 does not change the answer.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
Following the 2025 and 2026 pay agreement, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) continues to engage maritime trade unions on improvements to terms and conditions, including employment flexibilities and support for parents.
Recognising the need to reflect modern family life, a review of RFA personnel policies directed by the First Sea Lord has examined how best to support family life and career progression, including for mothers and parents serving in the RFA. The Ministry of Defence is considering the findings of this work to ensure that the RFA remains an attractive and sustainable career choice for current and future personnel.
Personnel already receive comprehensive maternity, paternity, adoption, carers’ and shared parental support, including enhanced leave, occupational health assistance and reasonable workplace adjustments and this provision remains under review.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Following the 2025 and 2026 pay agreement, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) continues to engage maritime trade unions on improvements to terms and conditions, including employment flexibilities and support for parents.
Recognising the need to reflect modern family life, a review of RFA personnel policies directed by the First Sea Lord has examined how best to support family life and career progression, including for mothers and parents serving in the RFA. The Ministry of Defence is considering the findings of this work to ensure that the RFA remains an attractive and sustainable career choice for current and future personnel.
Personnel already receive comprehensive maternity, paternity, adoption, carers’ and shared parental support, including enhanced leave, occupational health assistance and reasonable workplace adjustments and this provision remains under review.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The information requested is held by a third-party contractor under contractual arrangements and is not routinely held by the Ministry of Defence. The Department has requested the information required to answer the Question but has not yet received the necessary information from the contractor.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
No sanctions against the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) are envisaged in relation to the Enhanced Combat Body Armour (ECBA) plates, which have been in service since 1981. Any reduction in protection is likely to be an effect of age, not faulty manufacture. The Ministry of Defence continues to work with suppliers to ensure that equipment provided to the Armed Forces meets the required standards and contractual obligations.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Fruitless Payments figures reported in the Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2025-26 are published in accordance with HM Treasury's Managing Public Money guidance.
The Department has robust processes in place to ensure that losses are identified, assessed and reported accurately. The values reported in the Annual Report and Accounts represent the final assessed loss values.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Fruitless Payments figures reported in the Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2025-26 are published in accordance with HM Treasury's Managing Public Money guidance.
The Department has robust processes in place to ensure that losses are identified, assessed and reported accurately. The values reported in the Annual Report and Accounts represent the final assessed loss values.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Enhanced Combat Body Armour (ECBA) is no longer used as the primary front and rear ballistic plate system. However, ECBA plates remain in service as side protection inserts when personnel are operating at the highest level of protection with the VIRTUS and OSPREY body armour systems, which are the Armed Forces' primary combat body armour solutions.
The Complex Geometry Body Armour (CGBA) project will shortly commence the Concept Phase which will explore opportunities to enhance body armour design and performance, with particular consideration given to Service women. At this stage of the project, the timetable (including the invitation to tender and subsequent contract award) has not yet been concluded.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The decision reflected a broader reprioritisation of capability investment to maximise operational effect and affordability.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Kyiv Business Centre is now operational providing a base for UK companies, particularly SMEs, to develop partnerships with Ukrainian industry and pursue co-development, co-production, and investment opportunities. It builds on more than 40 UK–Ukraine industrial partnerships and the UK led international trade mission programme which has taken place over the last few years.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Defence Investment Plan includes provision to replace HMS Protector with a more modern variant to maintain the UK’s essential presence and support Government activities in the Arctic and around the British Antarctic Territory. Work is ongoing to determine the preferred procurement approach and associated costs. As such, it would be inappropriate to provide a cost estimate at this stage.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The National Resilience Public Awareness Campaign is a Cabinet Office-led programme of public engagement delivered as part of the Home Defence Programme. The written Ministerial statement laid by the Security Minister yesterday was the formal mechanism to Parliament launching the campaign.
This campaign reflects the Government’s commitment to strengthening resilience across society and ensuring that individuals, communities, businesses and public services all play their part in national preparedness.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
The Government remains in close consultation with NATO Allies on developments that may affect the security environment in the Euro-Atlantic area, including monitoring and assessing Russia’s investment in its military capabilities.
Construction of the radar facility in Kaliningrad has been underway for some time and forms part of this wider investment. The UK and NATO Allies routinely monitor relevant Russian military developments and share information and assessments where appropriate.
NATO continues to maintain an effective deterrence and defence posture, including on its Eastern Flank.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
Through wider Defence planning and investment processes, including the Defence Investment Plan (DIP), a decision was reached to no longer pursue the planned Boxer Batch 3 capabilities through the Boxer programme. It has not been possible to identify a singular date for when this decision was taken as it was undertaken as part of the broader piece of work to deliver the DIP.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Palantir products are currently used in the defence digital and data ecosystem, and this is expected to continue in some form. However, no decisions have been made on future consumption of Palantir products and services for the Digital Targeting Web. The process for industry to engage with the Digital Targeting Web is via the Challenge Book (Digital Targeting Web Challenge Book 2026 - GOV.UK) which runs a fully open and transparent assessment and selection process for potential candidate products.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The breakdown for the £8.6 billion UK contribution to the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) is outlined in the table below.
£ billion | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 | 2029-30 | Total | ||
Capital | 1.86 | 2.32 | 2.04 | 1.86 | 8.08 | ||
Resource | 0.12 | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.15 | 0.55 | ||
Total | 1.99 | 2.46 | 2.18 | 2.01 | 8.63 | ||
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Recovery is provided by using other Boxer vehicles (peer-to-peer capability), supplemented where required by the Support Vehicle (Recovery) and Challenger Armoured Repair and Recovery Vehicle.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Mine and Threat Exploitation Group has been restructured as the Royal Navy transitions from conventional ship-based mine warfare and clearance diving towards an approach that employs autonomous capabilities. This change reflects the evolution towards a Hybrid Navy, but does not represent a reduction in the operational importance of mine warfare, clearance diving or seabed warfare to the Royal Navy.
As the hon. Gentleman will know from the hundreds of Parliamentary Questions he tables to the Ministry of Defence each month, we take time to properly answer each one and provide appropriate answers.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Mine and Threat Exploitation Group has been restructured as the Royal Navy transitions from conventional ship-based mine warfare and clearance diving towards an approach that employs autonomous capabilities. This change reflects the evolution towards a Hybrid Navy, but does not represent a reduction in the operational importance of mine warfare, clearance diving or seabed warfare to the Royal Navy.
As the hon. Gentleman will know from the hundreds of Parliamentary Questions he tables to the Ministry of Defence each month, we take time to properly answer each one and provide appropriate answers.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The use of uncrewed or autonomous vehicles for Ground Based Air Defence forms part of the Ministry of Defence's ongoing consideration of future capability options. Any future testing activity, including associated timelines, will be determined as the requirement matures and will be subject to the availability of funding and approval of the necessary procurement arrangements.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Ministry of Defence is working at pace to conduct technical, commercial and delivery analysis to inform decisions on the potential replacement of HMS Protector with a more modern vessel. This work is considering the preferred procurement approach and replacement timeline. Project Shackleton is the working title used for this activity, which began in July 2026.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Project AETHER capability development is progressing under the sponsorship of the Cyber and Specialist Operations Command. Planning is currently ongoing for the delivery of a multi-payload, long endurance flight in financial year 2027-28. This will seek to build upon the previous trial events by demonstrating a broader range of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance collection techniques from stratospheric altitudes.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
No assessment has yet been made of the UK integration with NATO’s Maven Smart system due to ongoing work in the integration space.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Mission Information Platform brings together data sources from across both Defence and open source. This is to reduce inefficiency from working across silos and also has the benefit of increasing situational awareness for all of activities happening across the Ministry of Defence, thereby speeding up decision-making.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
Sixteen Protector RG Mk1 air vehicles have been purchased by the UK, eleven of which have been delivered into service, with others remaining in test and evaluation with the manufacturer.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question 123067, tabled on 23 March 2026.
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-03-23/123067
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Project TYRO comprises two projects within the Military Engineering Combat 2028 Programme: TYRO General Support Bridge and TYRO Close Support Bridge (CSB). Together, they will replace the Army’s current BR90 Automated Bridge Launch Equipment from 2028, and the TITAN Armoured Vehicle Launched Bridge capabilities from 2031 TYRO CSB dates are pre-contract negotiation and subject to change.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Ministry of Defence does not ringfence a specific percentage of its procurement budget for buying British. However, the UK defence market is already strong and benefits from significant defence procurement activity. In 2025-26, the department spent £34.1 billion with UK industry, with 85% of its industry spending supporting work carried out in the UK.
As part of our Back British approach, we will go further and use procurement and investment decisions more strategically to strengthen UK industrial capability, resilience, skills and supply chains across the United Kingdom.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Defence Air Safety Occurrence Reports (DASORs) are safety reports submitted by personnel involved in, or witness to, aviation safety occurrences. They form part of the Ministry of Defence's (MOD) aviation safety management system and are used to support the investigation of safety events, identify hazards, and improve aviation safety. DASORs are not intended to provide assessments of intent, ownership, attribution, or threat.
The MOD does not comment on specific threat assessments, intelligence matters, or operational security measures.
The DASOR submitted by the pilot of Warlord 31 reported a loss of safe separation with another object as an airprox event. This was subsequently investigated by the independent United Kingdom Airprox Board who published their summary report airprox number 2026014 in April 2026 at the following link https://www.airproxboard.org.uk/media/3ikpobnb/april-drone-summary-sheet.pdf .
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
The Department can confirm that it has entered into three arrangements with external agencies within the last three years.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Wedgetail WT001 is a converted airframe. Prior to its acquisition for military conversion, the aircraft operated as a commercial Boeing Business Jet under the civil registration B-5273.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Ministry of Defence has undertaken work to assess HMS Protector’s engines and the steps necessary to recover the platform. This is being considered as part of Project Shackleton, which was established at Ministerial direction to review the UK's ice-breaking capability and the renewal of that capability in line with the commitment made in the Defence Investment Plan.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Under current plans, it is anticipated that the Heavy Protected Mobility sub-programme will conclude its concept phase in Q1 2027.
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)