Select committee: Scottish Affairs Committee
Conclusion 20
3rd Report – Securing Scotland's future: Defence skills and jobs
Published 15 Sep 2026
Addressed to Scotland Office
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
The Defence Industrial Strategy called for a public conversation on the importance of defence. However, sufficient progress has not yet been made in developing this national conversation. Delivering such a conversation will be essential to supporting recruitment and retention in Scotland’s defence sector, and to building wider public understanding of it. Increased transparency regarding live threats and plans for the ‘Destination Defence’ campaign are a positive step, but more must be done to deliver this national conversation. (Conclusion, Paragraph 104)
From: Scottish Affairs Committee, 3rd Report – Securing Scotland's future: Defence skills and jobs (HC 165), 15 September 2026
Government response
Government response awaited: deadline 14 November 2026.