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Fourth Special Report - Defence Space: through adversity to the stars? Government Response to the Committee’s Third Report

Published 13 January 2023

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The government's response

This document responds to Third Report - Defence Space: through adversity to the stars?.

This is the government's response, published 13 January 2023.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government's response sets out how space governance, skills, space domain awareness, navigation, procurement and international work are being taken forward, without adopting the Committee's call for a Minister for Space within the Cabinet Office.

  • On governance, it says discussions on space "will be taken by the most relevant Cabinet Committee", and that the Space Directorate's transition into "extant structures" is part of integrating space into business as usual.
  • On skills, it says a new foundational space course will be integrated across all Defence entry-level training "next year", and that an Invitation to Tender for the UK Space Academy will be initiated before the end of March 2023.
  • On navigation, it says a BEIS PNT project team "will be completed by Spring 2023" and will help decide next steps. It says the Space-based PNT Programme "successfully concluded", with its analysis to be considered by that team.
  • On space domain awareness, it states Defence is investing "£85 million over ten years" and that it expects to publish capability goals, including for SDA, in early 2023.

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