Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the written statement entitled Ajax Payments Update, UIN HCWS652, made by the Minister for Defence Procurement on 20 March 2023, at which future milestones in the new schedule future contract payments to General Dynamics Land Systems UK for the AJAX programme will become payable.

Future payments will be made against the new schedule and its milestones, conditional on the delivery of compliant and deployable Ajax vehicles and continued progress of remaining trials activity. All payments will be conditional on continued satisfactory progress against the revised contracted schedule and full payment will not be made until all 589 vehicles have been delivered to the contracted requirement. Further specific contractual information remains commercially sensitive.