Armoured Fighting Vehicles

(asked on 26th September 2014) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the Scout vehicles built under contract by General Dynamics will be built in that company's (a) UK factories and (b) Spanish factories; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
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Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 15th October 2014

The first 100 of the 589 Scout Specialist Vehicles will be built in Spain with 60% of the value of each vehicle sourced from the UK supply chain. The Ministry of Defence is now actively considering options for building the remaining vehicles in Spain or the UK.

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