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1607139

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Typhoon Aircraft
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the report entitled Defence in a Competitive Age, published by his Department on 22 March 2021, CP 411, how many Tranche 1 Typhoons will be retired by 2025.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	172982
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave to him on 9 February 2023 to Question 140022.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 30/03/2023 13:12:27 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk attachment 1 file name UIN 140022.docx title Typhoon Aircraft
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1607140

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Chinook Helicopters
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the report entitled Defence in a Competitive Age, published by his Department on 22 March 2021, CP 411, whether his Department has completed the retirement of the oldest CH-47 Chinooks.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	172983
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Norwich South (Clive Lewis) on 11 November 2022 to Question 80797.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 29/03/2023 12:55:47 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk attachment 1 file name UIN 80797.docx title Chinook Helicopters
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1607128

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ajax Vehicles: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the written statement entitled Ajax Payments Update, UIN HCWS652, made by the Minister for Defence Procurement on 20 March 2023, how many (a) operational AJAX vehicles and (b) trained personnel will comprise the trained and deployable squadron to meet initial operating capability.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	172971
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>As laid out in my response to Question 169217, achieving Initial Operating Capability (IOC) requires 50 vehicles to be delivered in total. In addition to the 27 identified for the deployable squadron, the remaining 23 will be used by the Army to train crews and maintainers.</p><p> </p><p>It is anticipated that circa 115 trained, deployable personnel will be required at IOC as crew, however the precise breakdown will be determined closer to the time depending on operational requirements.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 29/03/2023 15:40:58 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk attachment 1 file name UIN 169217.docx title Ajax Vehicles
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1607127

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ajax Vehicles
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether in the context of the war in Ukraine he has recently reviewed the potential for future use of the AJAX vehicles in (a) surveillance and (b) reconnaissance.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	172970
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>The Department continues to study and learn lessons from the conflict in Ukraine. Ajax remains wholly relevant to future warfighting and forms a vital part of the Army system of systems that enables combined arms operations. The open digital architecture and capacity to upgrade Ajax through life ensures it can integrate new systems and evolve to meet emerging threats. As we progressively bring the platform into service, we will continue to test our employment assumptions against the lessons of current conflicts to maximise the opportunities that AJAX presents as part of a combined arms force.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 29/03/2023 12:52:10 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1607129

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ajax Vehicles: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the written statement entitled Ajax Payments Update, UIN HCWS652, made by the Minister for Defence Procurement on 20 March 2023, when his Department will pay the balance of the payments to General Dynamics Land Systems UK for the AJAX programme withheld since December 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	172972
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>Future payments will be made against the new schedule and its milestones, conditional on the delivery of compliant and deployable Ajax vehicles and continued progress of remaining trials activity. All payments will be conditional on continued satisfactory progress against the revised contracted schedule and full payment will not be made until all 589 vehicles have been delivered to the contracted requirement. Further specific contractual information remains commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk grouped question UIN 172973 172974 question first answered 29/03/2023 12:52:53 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1607130

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ajax Vehicles: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the written statement entitled Ajax Payments Update, UIN HCWS652, made by the Minister for Defence Procurement on 20 March 2023, whether the balance of the payments to General Dynamics Land Systems UK for the AJAX programme, withheld since December 2020, will be paid irrespective of the new schedule and its milestones.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	172973
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>Future payments will be made against the new schedule and its milestones, conditional on the delivery of compliant and deployable Ajax vehicles and continued progress of remaining trials activity. All payments will be conditional on continued satisfactory progress against the revised contracted schedule and full payment will not be made until all 589 vehicles have been delivered to the contracted requirement. Further specific contractual information remains commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk grouped question UIN 172972 172974 question first answered 29/03/2023 12:52:53 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1607131

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ajax Vehicles: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the written statement entitled Ajax Payments Update, UIN HCWS652, made by the Minister for Defence Procurement on 20 March 2023, at which future milestones in the new schedule future contract payments to General Dynamics Land Systems UK for the AJAX programme will become payable.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	172974
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>Future payments will be made against the new schedule and its milestones, conditional on the delivery of compliant and deployable Ajax vehicles and continued progress of remaining trials activity. All payments will be conditional on continued satisfactory progress against the revised contracted schedule and full payment will not be made until all 589 vehicles have been delivered to the contracted requirement. Further specific contractual information remains commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk grouped question UIN 172972 172973 question first answered 29/03/2023 12:52:54 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1607132

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ajax Vehicles: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the written statement entitled Ajax Payments Update, UIN HCWS652, made by the Minister for Defence Procurement on 20 March 2023, who met or will meet the costs of the user validation trials for the AJAX programme.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	172975
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2023 answer text <p>The User Validation Trials were bespoke trials to establish the effectiveness of the proposed Ajax modifications, conducted jointly with General Dynamics. General Dynamics bore all of their costs associated with this activity and the Ministry of Defence bore approximately £650,000 in costs for the preparation, execution and analysis of the independent monitoring and instrumentation necessary for these joint trials.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk grouped question UIN 172339 question first answered 28/03/2023 15:37:30 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1607133

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ajax Lessons Learned Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, who in his Department has had access to the draft Sheldon report on the Ajax lessons learned review.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	172976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>Clive Sheldon KC shared his initial draft report with the Second Permanent Secretary, as part of his most recent progress update, and with those officials involved in or supporting the representations process, which includes fact-checking and suggesting refinements to the recommendations as well as the Maxwellisation exercise. As is usual practice, Mr Sheldon will decide which comments to accept.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 30/03/2023 10:44:48 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1607134

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	France: Minesweepers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) initial operating capability and (b) full operating capability dates for the mine hunting capability being co-developed with France are.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	172977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>The Anglo-French programme, Maritime Mine Counter Measures is a sub-system of the Mine Hunting Capability Programme and therefore does not have an Initial Operating Capability or Full Operating Capability in and of itself as it forms part of the broader programme capability milestones.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 30/03/2023 13:13:26 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey