Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the speech given by the First Sea Lord entitled First Sea Lord's speech to the International Sea Power Conference, published on 8 December 2025, if he will list the unnecessary processes that have been stripped back in the last 100 days in the Royal Navy.

As the First Sea Lord made clear during his speech at the International Sea Power Conference the Royal Navy must strip back bureaucracies to keep pace of threats and technological changes. Great progress has been made over the last 100 days, in particular through greater digitalisation. A very clear example of this is a new Navy Booking Application which allow naval personnel to more easily book important serials such as fitness tests, gas mask testing and welfare briefs. The application is currently seeing a 30 per cent month-on-month growth in users and will be developed further so it can scale successfully as it uses grow across the Royal Navy.