Mentions:
1: None ammunition; 1,600 key munitions, including air defence and precision long-range missiles; over 400 armoured - Speech Link
2: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) There is clearly work to be done to ensure that, with increasing threats and growing tensions, we are fighting - Speech Link
3: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) and all-terrain vehicles, and nearly 4 million additional rounds of small-arms ammunition.We can all - Speech Link
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: Defending BritainFound: by Spirit in Belfast Submarines in Cumbria: Nuclear submarines in Barrow-in-Furness by BAE Systems Armoured
Mentions:
1: Lord Lisvane (XB - Life peer) Forces around the world are investing heavily in AI capabilities but fighting is still largely a human - Speech Link
2: Earl Attlee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The drone detects an enemy armoured battalion group but the AFVs are tightly parked in a square in the - Speech Link
3: Lord Stevens of Birmingham (XB - Life peer) pragmatically applying core UNCLOS requirements to the IMO’s four-part typology of autonomous maritime vehicles - Speech Link
4: Lord Mitchell (Lab - Life peer) I will confine my comments to the section dealing with procurement, innovation and talent. - Speech Link
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on land combat vehicles in each financial year since 2019-20.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Land Combat Vehicle (LCV) delivery team total spend on equipment and support by financial year is as follows:
FY | LCV total spend(£million) |
2019-20 | £94.3 |
2020-21 | £208.5 |
2021-22 | £209.3 |
2022-23 | £189.2 |
The LCV total spend on operating costs by financial year is as follows:
FY | LCV total spend (£million) |
2019-20 | £12.5 |
2020-21 | £14 |
2021-22 | £12.5 |
2022-23 | £13.2 |
LCV is a specific project team in DE&S and the figures above represent the total spend of that team. The figures do not represent the total spend on all land combat vehicles across the Department which would not be held centrally and would not be answerable without a disproportionate cost.
Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024
Committee: Defence Committee (Department: Ministry of Defence)Found: called the integrated procurement plan.
Mentions:
1: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) The Minister rightly points to the ability to sustain fighting. - Speech Link
2: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) As to procurement rules supporting SMEs such as those in North Devon, our new integrated procurement - Speech Link
3: James Heappey (Con - Wells) the force that we maintained for the cold war and all its enablement was not necessary when we were fighting - Speech Link
4: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) Given that only 25% of armoured vehicles have been produced, are the Government on target to meet that - Speech Link
5: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) for his procurement review. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) Why are some of the Army’s fighting vehicles 60 years old? - Speech Link
2: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) of the specialist engineering companies in the midlands supply Formula 1, civil aviation and premium vehicles - Speech Link
3: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) Since the second world war, nobody thought there would be an armoured vehicle and troop battle with trench - Speech Link
4: Emma Lewell-Buck (Lab - South Shields) Our Army lacks infantry fighting vehicles, multiple launch rocket systems, Challenger tanks and armoured - Speech Link
Asked by: Holly Lynch (Labour - Halifax)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2024 to Question 11369 on Armoured Fighting Vehicles and with reference to the letter from the Minister of State for Defence Procurement to the hon. Member for Halifax dated 14 March 2024, deposited paper reference DEP2024-0312, who the 18 scimitar combat reconnaissance vehicles were sold externally to.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 19 December 2023 to Question UIN 6229 to the hon Member for Norwich South (Mr Clive Lewis).
Written Evidence Mar. 20 2024
Inquiry: Defence Spending in Northern IrelandFound: has become the default outcome. 2 Written submission to the Public Accounts Committee, Inquiry into Armoured
Mentions:
1: None increasing spending on defence equipment to £288.6 billion over the next decade, and introducing a new procurement - Speech Link
2: Lord Stirrup (XB - Life peer) My Lords, yesterday in another place a Conservative Member suggested to the Minister for Defence Procurement - Speech Link
3: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) and submarines either on order or under construction, and I have seen some of them; we have got 1,200 armoured - Speech Link
4: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, as I have said before, modern war fighting is as much about capability as numbers. - Speech Link