Extract from Commons statement on Combat Air Strategy - July 17

Wednesday, 18 July 2018 08:40

Nia Griffith (Llanelli) (Lab) Rumours abound that the UK’s future airborne warning and control system capability will be gifted to a company without competition, just as the Mechanised infantry vehicle was. Does the Secretary of State agree that that would be a hypocritical approach, when his defence industrial policy refresh emphasised the importance of competition? Can he confirm that there will be an open competition for the UK’s future AWACS capability?...Request free trial