Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to respond to the National Audit Office's report on the Defence Equipment Plan 2020-2030.

We are grateful to the NAO for their report. This year has seen progress on many of their recommendations and we continue to work with them to improve our processes.

The MOD Permanent Secretary wrote to the Public Accounts Committee Chair on 12 January 2021 presenting the Department's assessment of the affordability of the Equipment Plan, and this letter is available in the Library of the House.

Senior MOD officials will respond to the NAO's findings on the Equipment Plan 2020-30 at the Public Accounts Committee hearing on 4 February 2021.