Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost is of an F-35 deployment spares package.

There are two types of spares pack available to support the F-35 on deployed operations. The Deployed Spares Pack (DSP) supports land-based deployments and the Afloat Spares Pack (ASP) supports carrier-based operations. The estimated costs are $44 million for the DSP and $50 million for the ASP.