To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times his Department has had to suspend the use of the high-explosive L31 artillery round in use with the L118 light gun since 2010.

Since 2010, full use of 105mm L31 High Explosive ammunition has been suspended twice; in June 2015 after an incident in training; and briefly in March 2016 based on a factory inspection. Individual batches and different combinations of shell and fuse have also been constrained at various points, but without impacting on availability for use in training or operations.