Ministry of Defence written question – answered at on 14 July 2025.
Ben Obese-Jecty
Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons)
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's news story entitled British Army to increase lethality over the next decade while Royal Navy steps up innovation in NATO, published on 5 June 2025, what metrics will be used to assess the army’s baseline for its current lethality; and what the level of each metric will be in order for the Army to have achieved its target of increasing lethality ten-fold.
Luke Pollard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Minister for Defence Procurement and Industry gave him on 12 June 2025, to Question 57781.
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