Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 13 February to Question 218778 on Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the F-35B testing programme being developed by the Joint Programme Office.
The F-35 programme is still developing the future F-35 Operational Test and Evaluation plan and our contribution has yet to be established.