Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of jobs that will be affected by the decision to cease the Raytheon Sentinel service.

There will be no redundancies for RAF personnel. All personnel will be posted elsewhere within the RAF and wider Ministry of Defence. There will be a range of future opportunities including in ISTAR where assets include Poseidon which met its initial operating capability in April 2020.

We continue to liaise closely with our contractors as their contracts reach their long-standing contract termination points to support operational capability until out of service date and to deactivate Sentinel as efficiently as possible.