Luke Pollard

65402 • Defence: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his oral contribution during the debate on Defence on 2 July, Official Report, Column 327, whether the additional £5 billion spent on defence includes funding for Ukraine.

69069 • Strategic Defence Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2025 to Question 56739 on Strategic Defence Review, whether the embargoed defence review document was classified as (a) market-sensitive and (b) in scope of the UK Market Abuse Regulation.

59765 • Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 4 June 2025 to Question 57372 on Chagos Islands: Sovereignty, what the costs were to his Department of the Agreement concerning the Chagos Archipelago including Diego Garcia.

68514 • Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the data breach relating to the Afghan relocations and assistance policy on military spending.

68398 • Army: Military Bases

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what additional security his Department plans to provide to UK army bases.

68515 • Armed Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of (a) Royal Navy, (b) British Army, and (c) RAF personnel are in frontline roles.

68647 • Iran: Nuclear Weapons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2025 to Question 65492 on Iran: Nuclear Weapons, whether his Department has received information on the Iranian nuclear programme from (a) allies and (b) the International Atomic Energy Agency since August 2023.

68801 • Ministry of Defence: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2024 to Question 19002 on Ministry of Defence: Temporary Accommodation, how many Afghans are being accommodated on the defence estate.

68095 • Defence: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what security measures are in place to vet contractors and suppliers involved in sensitive defence infrastructure projects.

68516 • Space

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 9 of section 7.5 of the Strategic Defence Review 2025, published on 2 June 2025, what his planned timetable is for the Cabinet sub-Committee or equivalent Ministerial group to meet.

68793 • Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his oral statement of 15 July 2025 on Afghanistan, Official Report, column 149-152, whether the £5.5 to 6 billion lifetime cost of the Afghan resettlement schemes includes further family members coming to the UK.

68809 • Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the assumptions used to generate the figure of a 5.5 to 6 billion lifetime cost of the Afghan re-settlement schemes.

68748 • Royal Artillery: Gurkhas

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the King's Gurkha Artillery will recruit female Nepali citizens.

66953 • European Union: Military Alliances

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 15 of his Department's policy paper entitled Security and defence partnership between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, published on 19 May 2025, what progress he has made on establishing a UK-EU dialogue on conflict prevention.

66955 • European Union: Military Alliances

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 12 (e), of the policy paper entitled Security and defence partnership between the EU and the UK, published on 19 May 20205, what progress he has made on (a) small arms and (b) light weapons cooperation through thematic dialogues via UK-EU Security and Defence dialogue.

66957 • European Union: Military Alliances

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 16 of the policy paper entitled Security and defence partnership between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, published on 19 May 2025, what progress the UK and the EU have made on coordinating shared priorities on peace mediation in multilateral fora.

66958 • France: Military Alliances

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Government press release entitled New Storm Shadow and missile cooperation to boost jobs as UK and France reboot defence relationship, published on 9 July 2025, who will command the new 50,000 strong combined joint force.

66959 • European Union: Military Alliances

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 12, subsection e of the policy paper entitled Security and defence partnership between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, published on 19 May 2025, what progress his Department has made on arms export control through thematic dialogues via the UK-EU Security and Defence Dialogue.

66960 • European Union: Military Alliances

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 12, subsection f of the policy paper entitled Security and defence partnership between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, published on 19 May 2025, how many times the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy has invited UK delegates to the Schuman Security and Defence Forum since 19 May 2025.

66961 • European Union: Military Alliances

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 15 of the policy paper entitled Security and defence partnership between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, published on 19 May 2025, what progress his Department has made on establishing a UK-EU dialogue on peace mediation.