Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to publish a defence command paper to outline how his Department plans to implement the Strategic Defence Review.

This Government endorses the Strategic Defence Review’s (SDR) vision and accepts all 62 recommendations. The implementation of the Review’s recommendations will form part of the main business of the Department and will be executed through a whole of UK Defence effort. A Defence Investment Plan, which will be published in the autumn, will take the SDR’s strategic direction and its costed recommendations, including on capabilities, and turn that into a line-by-line delivery plan.