Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, where under the General Service Respirator In Service Support contract will liability fall in the case of hybrid masks where the mask is made by one company and a filter or other spare is made by another.

A range of issues, including where liability will fall, are being considered as part of the detailed negotiations between the Ministry of Defence and the preferred bidder for the new General Service Respirator in-service support contract.