Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer given on 11 June 20220 to Question 135700, on Army: Training, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of building and improving the Army's physical urban training environments to include (a) high rise buildings, (b) multi-story car parks and (c) other features found in modern cities, to allow the Armed Forces to train in a realistic urban physical context that represents the modern operating environment.

Between both the Army's Collective Training Establishment Transition Programme (CTETP) and the Collective Training Transformation Programme (CTTP), the Army is continuing to invest in urban training environments for use in physical training exercises, which includes the infrastructure that the right hon. Member describes.

Together these investments will represent a step change in collective training capability that better prepares the Army in challenging, realistic, multi-domain and world-leading physical urban environments. These funded enhancements include instrumentation and the development of subterranean and multi-storey capabilities, delivered together across our current urban training facilities.

In 2021, the Secretary of State for Defence approved the procurement for the first elements of a Mobile Urban Training Facilities capability, for use in Oman. This is one part of the proposed development of a Combined Regional Joint Training and Experimentation Centre being developed near Duqm. Additionally, the Army will also use the Bundeswehr's urban training facility at Altmark, Germany, for Army collective training from 2023.