| Heading: |
Ajax Vehicles: Procurement |
| Question ID: |
1793102 |
| UIN: |
44832 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-07 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5280 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Seamus Logan
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| Asking Member handle: |
SeamusLoganMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@SeamusLoganMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's original budget for the Ajax armoured fighting vehicle programme was; how much his Department has spent since that programme started; and what the estimated final cost is in (a) real and (b) |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-28 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
483 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Maria Eagle
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| Answering Member handle: |
meaglemp
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@meaglemp
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| Answer text: |
The Approved Budget Level (ABL) for the Armoured Cavalry (Ajax) Programme is £6.3 billion. This has not changed since 2015. As at 31 March 2025, spend against the Ajax programme is £5.0 billion. The estimated cost of the programme against this approval is... |
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| Answering body ID: |
11 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Defence |
| Tweeted: |
true |