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944778

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date	19/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Equipment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to ensure the Defence equipment plan is affordable.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	166091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to delivering large, complex and technologically challenging defence programmes to give our military the very best equipment. We recognise the financial risks in the equipment plan and are working to incorporate the recommendations of the National Audit Office and Public Accounts Committee's reviews of the Equipment Plan 2017 into our management of the Plan. Going forward, the Modernising Defence Programme aims to deliver better military capability and value for money in a sustainable and affordable way.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 25/07/2018 15:16:10 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

944781

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Aircraft Carriers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the ability of his Department to deliver the re-baselined cost of £6.2 billion for production of the two new aircraft carriers.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	166094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence keeps costs within the Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carrier programme under very close scrutiny. The final cost of the programme will be subject to commercial negotiations with the Aircraft Carrier Alliance. The overall impact will only be clear once we have concluded our talks.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 25/07/2018 15:13:34 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

944016

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Patrol Craft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2018 to Question 162497 on Patrol Vessels, and with reference to his Department's policy of not classifying offshore patrol vessels as warships for shipbuilding purposes, as outlined in the Answer of 9 July 2018 to Question 160710, whether possible future Royal Navy orders for offshore patrol vessels will be subject to international competition.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	165493
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>Yes. The National Shipbuilding Strategy (page 33) set out that Offshore Patrol Vessels should be subject to open international competition, provided that there are no compelling national security reasons to constrain a particular procurement to national providers.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 23/07/2018 16:04:05 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

944021

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Warships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2018 to Question 162497 on Patrol Vessels, and with reference to his Department's policy of not classifying offshore patrol vessels as warships for shipbuilding purposes, as outlined in the Answer of 9 July 2018 to Question 160710, whether he has a remit to exempt future orders of Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships from international competition under Article 346 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	165494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The National Shipbuilding Strategy made clear that Royal Navy warships (destroyers, frigates and aircraft carriers) will be built in the UK. This recognises that preserving this national capability to design, integrate and build warships is critical to national security. The exemption under Article 346 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, allowing any member nation to reserve a procurement for reasons of national security, applies to warships - not to naval auxiliary vessels.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 23/07/2018 16:02:08 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

944044

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	AWACS
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the status is of negotiations between his Department and Boeing over a possible contract to replace its six RAF E-3D Sentry airborne early warning aircraft with a fleet of Boeing E-7 Wedgetail aircraft.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	165496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence is considering options to meet its future Airborne Warning and Control capability requirements. No investment decisions have yet been taken and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 23/07/2018 16:03:29 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

944045

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Warships: Radar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department is assessing the feasibility of fitting the Australian CEAFAR radar on future British warships.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	165497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>The Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy, supported by their respective science and technology organisations (Dstl and Defence Science and Technology Group) completed a collaborative capability study this year into Active Electronically Scanned Array Radar technology (including CEAFAR). The study concluded that both Navies field world class Radar capabilities with exciting opportunities for science and technology collaboration.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 25/07/2018 15:12:58 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones