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1381933

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date	24/11/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Watchkeeper WK450
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of the Watchkeeper fleet are operational as of 24 November 2021.
tabling member constituency	Islwyn
tabling member printed	Chris Evans
uin	80975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2021 answer text <p>As at 1 April 2021, the Ministry of Defence had 46 Watchkeeper Aircraft in active fleet management, of which 11 were in service. The remainder are held in the sustainment fleet in storage or being used in test and evaluation.</p><p>I am withholding the number that are operational, as its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the capability, effectiveness or security of the Armed Forces.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin grouped question UIN 80976 question first answered 29/11/2021 11:21:30 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

1381937

registered interest
date	24/11/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Watchkeeper WK450
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Watchkeeper's are in service as of 24 November 2021.
tabling member constituency	Islwyn
tabling member printed	Chris Evans
uin	80976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2021 answer text <p>As at 1 April 2021, the Ministry of Defence had 46 Watchkeeper Aircraft in active fleet management, of which 11 were in service. The remainder are held in the sustainment fleet in storage or being used in test and evaluation.</p><p>I am withholding the number that are operational, as its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the capability, effectiveness or security of the Armed Forces.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin grouped question UIN 80975 question first answered 29/11/2021 11:21:30 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

1381938

registered interest
date	24/11/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Watchkeeper WK450
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many flying hours have been undertaken by Watchkeeper in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021 as of 24 November 2021.
tabling member constituency	Islwyn
tabling member printed	Chris Evans
uin	80977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2021 answer text <p>The number of flying hours undertaken for watchkeeper for 2019, 2020 and 2021 as of 24 November 2021 is shown in the below table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Calendar Year (01 January – 31 December)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p>199 hours 20 mins</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p>406 hours 36 min</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p>432 hours 34 mins</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 29/11/2021 11:19:32 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

1381939

registered interest
date	24/11/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Watchkeeper WK450: Exports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any Watchkeeper WK450's have been exported since 2018.
tabling member constituency	Islwyn
tabling member printed	Chris Evans
uin	80978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2021 answer text <p>No Watchkeeper WK450 UAVs have been exported since 2018.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 29/11/2021 11:20:39 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans