| Heading: |
Guided Weapons: Procurement |
| Question ID: |
1786875 |
| UIN: |
39935 |
| 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, whether (a) an open |
| Is named day: |
false |
| 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: |
4682 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Luke Pollard
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| Answering Member handle: |
LukePollard
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@LukePollard
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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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| Correcting Member Twitter reference: |
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| Answer text: |
Neither a Prior Information Notice nor voluntary ex-ante transparency notice were published, noting that this procurement is excluded from applicable procurement legislation as it is pursuant to an international agreement between the UK and Ukraine. |
| 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 |