Select Committee · Public Accounts Committee

The Future of the Equipment Plan

Status: Closed Opened: 26 Mar 2025 Closed: 21 Aug 2025 2 recommendations 31 conclusions 1 report

Historically, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has published an annual Equipment Plan, where it sets out its spending plans on equipment procurement and support projects over the next decade to keep the nation secure. The Government revealed in 2024 that an Equipment Plan for that year would not be published, nor information about it provided …

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Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
32nd Report - The Future of the Equipment Plan HC 716 20 Jun 2025 33 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

1 item
5 Conclusion 32nd Report - The Future of the Equipme… Deferred

Provide Parliament with proposal for annual equipment procurement updates by September 2025.

We are extremely disappointed that the Permanent Secretary did not have concrete suggestions for how the Department will provide Parliament with annual reporting on its plans. The Department last published a full Equipment Plan in November 2022. Since July 2023, it has written to both this and the previous Public …

Government response. The government agrees with the recommendation but states that officials cannot pre-empt Ministerial decisions, referring instead to the plans for the Defence Investment Plan (DIP) outlined in the Strategic Defence Review publication on 2 June 2025. It does not commit …
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Oral evidence sessions

1 session
Date Witnesses
28 Apr 2025 Admiral Sir Tony Radakin KCB ADC · Ministry of Defence, Andy Start · Ministry of Defence, David Williams CB · Ministry of Defence, Madelaine McTernan CB · Ministry of Defence View ↗

Correspondence

3 letters
DateDirectionTitle
1 Dec 2025 To cttee Letter from the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence relating to reco…
24 Nov 2025 To cttee Letter from the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence relating to the …
19 May 2025 To cttee Letter from the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence relating to the …