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Commons · Question 77480 · Tabled 16 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Defence · Official record

Answered 14 Oct 2025

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Asked by Sharon Hodgson

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Strategic Defence Review, published on 2 June 2025, whether his Department has considered establishing one of the always on munitions factories in the North East; and when he expects to anno

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Answered by Luke Pollard, 14 Oct 2025

The Strategic Defence Review committed to build at least six new energetics and munitions factories in the UK. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is currently developing a plan to deliver this commitment alongside our wider Defence Industrial Strategy, deliver...