Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the decision on the New Medium Helicopter programme will be made and announced.

The Government will make a final decision on the award of the New Medium Helicopter contract through the wider Defence Investment Plan (DIP). The Department is working flat out to deliver the DIP, which will be published as soon as possible. It is backed by the Government’s largest sustained increase in defence investment since the end of the Cold War, spending £270 billion on defence in this Parliament alone.