Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to ensure that there are enough qualified (a) programme managers and (b) engineers to accept the Army's Boxer variant.

The BOXER programme has the appropriate governance structure in place. Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) keeps required project team resources under active review in accordance with evolving Army and wider Ministry of Defence priorities. As part of that resourcing process, Acceptance activity will be staffed with a range of personnel including P3M (Portfolio, Programme, Project Management) and Engineering specialists from OCCAR, DE&S and Army. Plans are being developed to meet the necessary timelines to facilitate this acceptance activity.