Question
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the oral evidence given by Sir Mark Lyall Grant to the Defence Select Committee on 14 November 2017, HC 556, if he will list the events held ahead of the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review with stakeholders in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) Northern Ireland.
Answer
In developing the National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review (NSS and SDSR), officials met with representatives from leading think tanks, NGOs, academic institutions and industry as part of the consultation on the review. This included a series of academic engagement events held over the summer and autumn of 2015 in Edinburgh, Belfast, Aberystwyth, Durham, Exeter, Cambridge and London. There was also engagement with the Devolved Administrations.