Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, who has been the Senior Responsible Owner of the Ajax armoured vehicle programme to date.
Since the Main Gate Business Case baseline approval in 2014 there have been three Senior Responsible Owners for the Armoured Cavalry 25 (AC25) programme. Prior to this, from 2010 (when Main Gate Business Case 1 was signed) to 2013, there were a further two SROs. This was when Ajax was part of firstly the Future Rapid Effect System (FRES) programme and then the wider Mounted Close Combat (MCC) portfolio.
April 2019 – current | Major General Simon Hamilton (SRO AC25) |
November 2015 – April 2019 | Major General Mark Gaunt (SRO AC25) |
October 2013 – November 2015 | Major General Nick Pope (SRO MCC and then SRO AC25) |
November 2011 - October 2013 | Maj Gen Bruce Brealey (SRO MCC) |
November 2008 – November 2011 | Brig Mike Riddell-Webster (SRO FRES then SRO MCC) |