Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason his Department decided not to undertake a Defence Capability Assessment Register assessment in 2022 as part of its Equipment Plan.

The Defence Capability Assessment Register (DCAR) provides a long term view of relative capability risks (and strengths) against delivery of the full range of Defence tasks. The policy, priorities and outcomes for Defence changed as a result of the Integrated Review and we had to update the DCAR last year to reflect the new policy which was set out in more detail in the Defence Command Paper.

The DCAR process is being conducted this year against the new policy priorities.