Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November 2023 to Question 1043, what lessons from similar ventures in the other Services the programme team are building on.

The Land Industrial Operating Services programme team are building on lessons learnt from a range of initiatives including:

• Maritime domain: Future Maritime Support Programme (FSM).

• Air domain: Typhoon Total Availability eNterprise (TyTAN),

• Land Aviation domain: the Wildcat Integrated Support and Training Contract (WIST) and the Apache Integrated Operational Support (IOS).