Written questions · James Cartlidge

22 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Armed Forces Recruitment Service contract contains diversity targets.

22 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the contract for the Armed Forces Recruitment Service will include specific recruitment targets for the (a) Army, (b) Royal Air Force and (c) Royal Navy.

21 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

France: Nuclear Weapons

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 11 July 2025 on Lancaster 2.0, HCWS812, if he will list each member of the new UK-France Nuclear Steering Board.

21 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

France: Nuclear Weapons

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 11 July 2025 on Lancaster 2.0, HCWS812, when the new UK-France Nuclear Steering Board will first meet.

21 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

France: Nuclear Weapons

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 11 July 2025 on Lancaster 2.0, HCWS812, how regularly the new UK-France Nuclear Steering Board will meet.

21 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

France: Nuclear Weapons

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 11 July 2025 on Lancaster 2.0, HCWS812, who will chair the new UK-France Nuclear Steering Board.

21 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the Minister for Defence Procurement plans to respond to the hon. Member for South Suffolk's letter dated 1 July 2025.

21 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

National Armaments Director: Contracts

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the contract for the acting National Armaments Director has been extended in the 2025-26 financial year.

21 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Unmanned Air Systems: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2025 to Question 64478 on Unmanned Air Systems: Procurement, and with reference to the 50,000 drones to Ukraine announced in his oral statement of 17 July 2025 on Ukraine, col 476

21 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Defence: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Defence Investment Plan will be published before the rise of the House on 18 December 2025.

15 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Defence: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July to Question 66215 on Defence: Finance, what is the total financial quantum of the amount of money which will count towards Defence spending in 2027 as a result of the inclusion of t

15 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Defence: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July to Question 66218 on Defence: Finance, whether all of the £5.1 billion stated under the column for 2027/28 as the Single Intelligence Account budget, in Table 5.1 of the document re

14 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

France: Military Alliances

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the press release entitled New Storm Shadow and missile cooperation to boost jobs as UK and France reboot defence relationship, published on 9 July 2025, on what date the newly signed declaratio

14 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

France: Military Alliances

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his oral contribution in response to an Urgent Question from the Hon. Member for South Suffolk on 10 July 2025, Official Report, column 1117, whether his Department classifies the gravity bomb t

14 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

France: Military Alliances

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's joint press release entitled New Storm Shadow and missile cooperation to boost jobs as UK and France reboot defence relationship, published on 9 July 2025, what discussions he h

14 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

France: Military Alliances

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's joint press release entitled New Storm Shadow and missile cooperation to boost jobs as UK and France reboot defence relationship, published on 9 July 2025, what assessment he ha

14 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

European Union: Military Alliances

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 60 of his Department's joint policy paper entitled Security and defence partnership between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, published o

14 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Defence: UK Relations with EU

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress he has made on conventional weapons cooperation through thematic dialogues within the UK-EU Security and Defence Partnership.

14 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

European Union: Military Alliances

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 15 of his Department's policy paper entitled Security and defence partnership between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, published on 19 M

14 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Defence: UK Relations with EU

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress his Department has made on countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction through thematic dialogues within the UK-EU Security and Defence partnership.