Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the Mean Time was between Unscheduled Removal for A400M aircraft in the Forward Available Fleet in each of the last 12 months.

Mean Time Between Unscheduled Removal is an aircraft component reliability metric, a measure of how long, usually in flying hours, a component is expected to remain serviceable when fitted to an aircraft, rather than a measure of aircraft availability. The information is not held in the format requested and could only be provided if at all, at disproportionate cost.