Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2016 to Question 52514, how many meetings on what dates since December 2013 involving routine engagement between Ministers and officials of his Department and Rolls Royce included a discussion of the Serious Fraud Office investigation into Rolls Royce.

Available Ministry of Defence records indicate that the Serious Fraud Office investigation into Rolls-Royce was referred to during one routine meeting between the company and the then Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology on 5 March 2014.

It should be noted that this was a reference to the existence of the investigation, but that there was no discussion of the substance of the investigation itself.

Records of meetings between Rolls-Royce and defence officials are not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.