Queen's Speech 2021 - Integrated review

“My Ministers will implement the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy.”

• ● The Integrated Review sets out the Government’s vision of the UK’s role in the world through to 2030 and the action we will take at home and with other countries to ensure that we are stronger, safer and more prosperous in a more competitive age.

• ● We will not be able to achieve the objectives set out in the Integrated Review by working alone: collective action with our allies and partners will be vitally important. We will lead by example where we have unique or significant strengths and identify where we are better placed to support others in achieving our shared goals.

• ● We will play a more active part in international institutions including the United Nations, World Trade Organisation, World Health Organisation and the international financial institutions. We will seek to shape the international order of the future, extending it in areas such as cyberspace and space, and protecting democratic values.

• ● We will build stronger alliances and wider partnerships:

o Recognising no relationship is more valuable than our one with the United

States.

o Increasing our engagement in the Indo-Pacific, including through becoming a Dialogue Partner to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members.

o Pursuing constructive and productive relationships with our friends and neighbours in Europe based on mutual respect for sovereignty.

o Being a partner of choice in Africa, with a focus on East Africa.
o Fostering thriving relationships in the Middle East based on trade, green

innovation and science and trade.

• ● We will do more to integrate our approach across diplomacy, development, and defence and we will return to spending 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income on international development when the fiscal situation allows.

• ● We are realistic about the challenges we face, but optimistic about our future as an active European country with a global perspective, which brings countries

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together to solve the issues that matter most to our citizens and to improve their lives.

Key facts

● As the Integrated Review sets out, we will focus on five key areas:

o Solving global challenges.

o Investing in science and technology and acting as a responsible cyber power.

o Acting as a force for good in the world, defending democracy and human rights.

o Championing the free flow of trade, capital and knowledge as the best way to drive economic growth.

o Taking a more robust approach to security and deterrence.