Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 98836

Navy

Tabled: 10 December 2025

Answered: 18 December 2025

Question

James Cartlidge

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 ha

Answer

Luke Pollard

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...

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