Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made for the implications of his policies of the National Audit Office, Optimising the defence estate, published in June 2021.

The Department has carefully considered the four main recommendations from the National Audit Office Report and has already implemented a number of measures to enhance delivery of our estate optimisation plans, including: a re-baselining of the disposals schedule; a review of the Defence Estates Optimisation Portfolio governance model; plans to adopt a new Delivery, Commercial & Procurement Strategy; and improved data collection.