Jeremy Quin: When selecting the new armoured fighting vehicle for the Army a number of possibilities were considered, including the CV90. After a full competitive process, the Ajax vehicles was selected. As part of normal business, the Ministry of Defence keeps a range of capabilities under review to ensure our Armed Forces are equipped to face future threats.
Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the Government has paid from the public purse on legal representation in connection with the Ajax Armoured Fighting Vehicle programme up to 8 June 2022; what estimate his Department has made of projected total costs to the public purse for legal representation in connection with the Ajax Armoured Fighting Vehicle programme; and whether that...
John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Written Statement of 19 May 2022, HCWS42, on Ajax Update, how many forces personnel are involved in the trials for the Ajax vehicles at Millbrook.
John Healey: ...meeting even its core NATO commitments. Is it true that the Defence Secretary warned the Chancellor that Britain risks missing its 2% spending commitment? What is the Defence Secretary doing about Ajax, given that the Public Accounts Committee’s new report states that the MoD “is failing to deliver the…capability that the Army needs to…meet its NATO commitments”? Why has the...
Ajax Programme
Ajax Programme
John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel have been injured or are now off work as a result of trials of AJAX vehicles since 12 May 2022.
Lord Coaker: ...problem with defence spending, which has bedevilled the department for a number of years. The noble Baroness, Lady Smith, and my noble friend Lord Hunt spoke about that. To take one example, 29 Ajax vehicles have been delivered to the Government at a cost of £3.5 billion so far. There are more on the way. We are supposed to have 569, which were supposed to have been delivered four or five...
Lord Coaker: To ask Her Majesty's Government what recent progress they have made on delivering outstanding Ajax armoured vehicles.
John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what contingency plans his Department has put in place in the event that Morpheus does not reach initial operating capability before Ajax enters service.
Wayne David: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the future of the Ajax vehicle; and if he will make a statement.
Jeremy Quin: As part of my commitment to keep Parliament informed on the programme, I wish to provide a further update on the Ajax equipment project being delivered as part of the Armoured Cavalry Programme.Programmatic Issues Work continues on the noise and vibration issues. The independent Millbrook trials have now concluded. The initial findings informed the consideration by the safety panel on the...
John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of what the whole life cost of the Ajax Programme will be, including the contract cost and support costs.
John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many concerns relating to the Ajax Programme that have been raised by DSTL are open; what each of those concerns is; and what the status is of each of those concerns.
John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many critical milestones on the Ajax Programme are outstanding; and how late each of those milestones is.
John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which armoured vehicles will be kept in service for longer than initially planned in the event that the Ajax Programme has not reached full operating capability by 2025.
Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the integration and deployment of Morpheus with AJAX is a requirement for the AJAX programme to reach Full Operational Capability.
John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the National Audit Office report, The Ajax Programme, published 11 March 2022, how many of the 136 open concerns raised by DSTL that his Department were tracking as of October 2021 have been resolved; and what each of those 136 concerns relates to.
John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what other responsibilities and duties the SRO for the Armoured Cavalry Programme has outside of the Ajax Programme; and how much of their time each of those duties occupies.
John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date his Department expects the Government Furnished Equipment Combat Mk II headset upgrade will be (a) in service with the Army and (b) fully rolled out to all Army personnel.