Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 13 July 2021 to Question 29735 on Ajax Vehicles: Testing, whether compensation claims made by personnel assessing AJAX will be covered by (a) private insurance taken out by Millbrook testing and (b) his Department through an existing framework agreement with Millbrook testing.

I refer the right hon. Member to my letter of 19 July 2021, which explains the position on liability and insurance in relation to the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) contract with Millbrook. The MOD cannot state whether such insurance will answer any claims made by Army Personnel and it will obviously depend on the circumstances of each claim. More broadly, again, depending on the circumstances of each claim, Army personnel might be able to make a claim under the Armed Forces compensation scheme or against the MOD. Depending on those circumstances, the MOD might seek to involve its contractor, General Dynamics UK.