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Armoured Fighting Vehicles

Commons · Question 38489 · Tabled 14 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence · Official record

Answered 24 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Neil Shastri-Hurst

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many additional (a) tanks and (b) armoured vehicles are expected to be operational in 2027-28, in the context of increases in defence spending.

Answer

Answered by Maria Eagle, 24 Mar 2025

Whilst the Army’s modernisation will continue over the next decade with a programme of investment worth billions of pounds, future capability development priorities will be guided by the Strategic Defence Review (SDR). There are no current plans to procur...