Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release entitled UK “building the factories of the future” as government launches next phase of new munitions and energetics factories, published on 19 November 2025, when the engineering design work on the first new factory will commence.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 25 November 2025, to Question 93045.

https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-11-20/93045

Work is underway to plan the new factories, it is currently premature to provide specific detail, more information will be made available once the necessary preparatory work has been completed.