Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 44 of the Defence Equipment Plan 2022-2032, published in November 2022, and to line 17 of his Department's Government Major Projects Portfolio Data March 2022, whether he now expects a smaller saving from the decision to reduce the number of E-7 Wedgetails purchased by his Department.

The figures from the Defence Equipment Plan 2022-32 and the Government Major Projects Portfolio Data refer to different sets of data. There has been no substantive reduction in the forecast savings from the reduced number of aircraft.