Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry Luke Pollard has hosted his German counterpart, State Secretary for Armament and Innovation Jens Plötner, at Lancaster House in London for talks aimed at deepening defence-industrial co-operation between the UK and Germany.
The latest meeting of the UK-Germany Ministerial Group on Equipment and Capability Cooperation brought together senior officials and military leaders from both countries to review progress on joint capability programmes across air, land, sea and space.
Among the flagship projects on the agenda was Deep Precision Strike, a joint initiative to develop long-range strike capability and close critical gaps in NATO's deterrence.
Luke Pollard: 'Standing together'
"Germany is one of our closest and most valued defence partners, and today's talks demonstrate our determination to turn that ambition into real capability for our armed forces and real opportunity for our defence industries," Luke Pollard said.
"As threats to our shared security evolve, the UK and Germany are standing together, strengthening our forces, our industrial bases and our resilience in lockstep."
Building on Trinity House
The talks build on the Trinity House Agreement signed in October 2024, which set out a programme of bilateral co-operation across air, land, maritime, cyber and space, and on the wider Kensington Treaty signed in July 2025.
They follow Prime Minister Andy Burnham's visit to Berlin on 8 October, when the two countries agreed to deepen space co-operation and set up a new UK-Germany Counter-Hybrid Partnership against grey-zone threats.
After the meeting, Luke Pollard joined Jens Plötner at the German Embassy for a panel discussion with industry leaders, part of a wider programme of UK-German engagement in the run-up to the EU-UK summit.
