32nd Report - The Future of the Equipment Plan

Select Committee
Public Accounts Committee HC 716 20 June 2025
Report Status Government responded
Conclusions & Recommendations 33 items (2 recs)
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5 Conclusion Deferred
We are extremely disappointed that the Permanent Secretary did not have concrete suggestions for how the Department will provide Parliament with annual reporting on its plans. The Department last published a full Equipment Plan in November 2022. Since July 2023, it has written to both this and the previous Public …
Government Response Summary
The government agrees with the recommendation but states that officials cannot pre-empt Ministerial decisions, referring instead to the plans for the Defence Investment Plan (DIP) outlined in the Strategic Defence Review publication on 2 June 2025. It does not commit to providing the requested fully worked-out proposal to the committee.
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