| Heading: |
Guided Weapons: Procurement |
| Question ID: |
1787234 |
| UIN: |
40323 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-21 |
| 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, whether the contract |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-28 |
| 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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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Correcting Member handle: |
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| Answer text: |
The Ukraine Government selected the lightweight-multirole missile because it has demonstrated itself to be a highly effective short range air defence capability. Because the UK Ministry of Defence is acting on behalf of the Ukrainian Government in procuri... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
11 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Defence |
| Tweeted: |
true |