Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his planned timetable is for delivering improved technology and data management in his Department’s maintenance regime.

The Department seeks to continually improve our technology and data management. We have technology and data strategies which are driving improvements over a number of years and are associated with a large number of individual projects and changes.

By its nature this leads to continual, incremental improvement. In the next 12 months we should have largely achieved a review of the condition of our estate and that, combined with new technology to monitor and capture data, and an improved ability to analyse and use data to make decisions, is significantly enhancing how we manage the estate and direct our investment in the most effective manner.

A new decision support tool is planned to go live by the end of this year.