Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether army personnel have been issued with (a) mobile handsets and (b) other devices (i) manufactured by Huawei and (ii) manufactured by Huawei but provided by and badged with the names of other companies; and what her Department's policy is towards the use of telecommunications equipment manufactured by Chinese companies.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) takes the security of its Information and Communications Technology (ICT) systems and services very seriously. However, for security reasons, the MOD does not comment publicly on the specifics of its ICT systems and services.