| Heading: |
Guided Weapons: Procurement |
| Question ID: |
1786879 |
| UIN: |
39939 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4613 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Alex Burghart
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| Asking Member handle: |
alexburghart
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@alexburghart
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release on the award of a £1.6 billion contract to Thales in Belfast for the manufacture of lightweight-multirole missiles, published on 2 March 2025, under what circumsta |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-25 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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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 contract includes provisions for termination in a range of circumstances. Releasing the detail of those provisions could potentially harm our relations with the Government of Ukraine, noting that the contract was placed on its behalf pursuant to an in... |
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| Answering body ID: |
11 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Defence |
| Tweeted: |
true |