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1607128

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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

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