Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when officials in his Department first learnt that the first element of the Morpheus capability was affected by delays and would not meet its delivery date.

In April 2020 General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS), who are the contractor responsible for the EvO TP Contract, wrote to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) asking for an extension to the Contract duration. The MOD consequently worked with GDMS on potential strategies to mitigate delays to delivery. Ministers were first informed of a risk of delays to the first element of the MORPHEUS project through an Information Note to the Secretary of State for Defence in December 2020.