Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 118569

Defence

Tabled: 6 March 2026
Answered: 16 March 2026

Question

Lee Anderson

Reform UKAshfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment his Department has made on the adequacy of the UK's air defence.

Answer

Luke Pollard
This Government inherited a set of Armed Forces that were described by a previous defence secretary as having been “hollowed out and underfunded”. He made these comments from his time on the Government benches in the last Parliament. The Department routin...

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