Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of his policy to establish a Defence Innovation Agency on the work of the Defence and Security Accelerator regional innovation partner network.

Options are currently being assessed by senior MOD officials as to how any Defence Innovation Agency will impact the work of the Defence and Security Accelerator regional innovation partner network, however there is no desire to stop work that is currently providing exploitation routes from concept to military capability.