Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to improve military security.

This Government announced the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War, reaching 2.5% of GDP from April 2027, and setting a clear ambition for defence spending to rise to 3% in the next Parliament. The Strategic Defence Review will ensure that Defence is central both to the security, and to the economic growth and prosperity, of the United Kingdom. The Reviewers will make their final report to the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and then Secretary of State in the spring of this year. The Secretary of State will then subsequently report to Parliament.