Defence Equipment: Procurement

(asked on 29th November 2022) - View Source
Questioner
John Healey Portrait
John Healey
(Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)

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, what the eleven projects reporting a change in their approved in service date are; and what the (a) initial and (b) current approved in service dates are for each project.

Answered by
Alex Chalk Portrait
Alex Chalk
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
This question was answered on 7th December 2022

The eleven projects reporting a change in their approved In-Service date are listed in the table below along with their expected and current approved In-Service Dates.

Project

Expected In-Service Date at approval

Current forecast In-Service Date

AJAX (Specialist Vehicles)

Jul-20

Not yet determined

Apache Capability Sustainment Programme

Apr-22

May-23

E7 Wedgetail

Dec-23

Mar-24

Brimstone Capability Sustainment Programme

Oct-22

Feb-25

ASRAAM Sustainment (MG1)

Nov-18

Apr-22

Marshall

Feb-17

Jan-21

Protector

Jul-21

Nov-23

Sky Sabre

Mar-20

Aug-21

Type 26 Frigates

Oct-27

Oct-28

Core Production Capability

Jun-26

Oct-25

New Style of IT (Deployed)

Jun-19

Dec-21

Reticulating Splines