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Defence Industrial Strategy

The Defence Industrial Strategy, led by the Ministry of Defence, sets out the UK's approach to building and maintaining defence industrial capacity and capability. Current activity includes progressing the defence investment plan, exploring use of Northern Ireland industrial capacity, supporting UK defence firms exporting to Ukraine with rapid innovation cycles, and updating the National Shipbuilding Strategy. The strategy is active and addresses both domestic defence equipment procurement and international defence technology exports.

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20 Jun 2025 | Research Ministry of Defence linked direct

Public Accounts Committee: The Future of the Equipment Plan — Full Report (PDF)

Why linked: PAC press notice expressing 'extreme disappointment' at lack of public spending plan — substantiates PAC's adversarial DIS position.

The Department is building on reforms begun under the previous government to speed up procurement: it aspires to reduce by two-thirds the time to award a contract to a two-year maximum.

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4 Dec 2023 | Research Ministry of Defence linked

The Equipment Plan 2023 to 2033

The Ministry of Defence’s Equipment Plan for the next decade is unaffordable and it is facing the largest budget deficit since the Plan was first published in 2012, according to a new report by the National Audit Office. Report type: …

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28 Jul 2022 | Research Defence Committee linked direct

Second Report - The Integrated Review, Defence in a Competitive Age and the Defence and Security Industrial Strategy

Why linked: Defence Committee Second Report on the Integrated Review, Defence in a Competitive Age and DSIS (July 2022) — the underlying committee scrutiny report on the predecessor regime.

Defence Committee Second Report on the Integrated Review, Defence in a Competitive Age and DSIS (July 2022) — the underlying committee scrutiny report on the predecessor regime.

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12 Oct 2010 | Research House of Commons Library linked direct

Strategic Defence and Security Review

Why linked: Commons Library briefing on the SDSR framework that historically underpinned UK defence-industrial planning — scrutiny baseline for the regime lineage.

Type: Standard Note (SN05592) That Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) was announced shortly after the new Coalition Government took office in May 2010. As the SDSR is ongoing, it is difficult to conclude with any certainty what its final …

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