Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 6 June 2025 to Question 56289 on Ministry of Defence: Documents, what time on 18 July 2023 the Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (a) was sent and (b) received from his Department’s messenger service and (c) was permitted access to an embargoed copy of his Department’s policy paper entitled Defence command paper 2023: defence’s response to a more contested and volatile world, published on 18 July 2023.

Officials have been unable to locate information which goes beyond that provided in my answer to the hon. Member's Question (56289).