Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 13 June 2025 to Question 57936 on Strategic Defence Review, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that the views of junior ranks and underrepresented groups within the armed forces were captured during the consultation process for the Strategic Defence Review 2025.

The Strategic Defence Review was informed by an unprecedented level of consultation. The call for evidence phase explicitly invited responses from serving military personnel. They were invited to respond to both the public call for evidence and an internal Departmental survey, which saw 800 responses.