Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 71 of the Strategic Defence Review 2025, published on 8 July 2025, what recent progress he has made on developing a virtual training environment that is integrated into his Department's common digital architecture.

Defence is conducting a discovery phase to understand how this virtual training capability will work across all domains and military commands and can be integrated into Defence’s common digital architecture.

It is imperative that Defence delivers a training ecosystem that will provide an interoperable, multi-domain capability, across the military commands. This will enable training from individual to collective levels and will realise the benefits of efficiency and enhanced interoperability to, in turn, enable the Integrated Force. By embedding synthetic and virtual training requirements into procurement programmes, Defence is ensuring that its training capabilities are adaptable, innovative, and fit for purpose in the evolving operational environment.