Type 31 Frigates: Procurement
(asked on 9th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the decision to (a) pause and (b) restart the procurement process for the Type 31e frigate was made.
Answered by
Stuart Andrew
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
This question was answered on 17th October 2018
I refer the hon. Member to the response I gave to the right hon. Member for North Durham (Kevan Jones) on 5 September 2018 in response to question numbers 167940,167941, 167942 and 167945 and to the hon. Member for Glasgow South West (Chris Stephens) in response to question number 167315.
We launched the new procurement on 13 August 2018 when we issued a Prior Information Notice in Defence Contracts Online.