Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what challenge committees have been set up as part of the Strategic Defence Review; and if he will list their membership.

The second phase of the Strategic Defence Review will run through October and November, focused on Review and Challenge. Panels of external, independent experts have been chosen by the Reviewers to provide robust challenge to proposition submissions, in order to inform the drafting of the final Review recommendations. The membership is evolving subject to availability during the Review and Challenge phase.