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F-35 Aircraft: Spare Parts

Commons · Question 56812 · Tabled 3 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 9 Jun 2025

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Asked by Rachael Maskell

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the Government of placing conditionality on the use of UK-manufactured goods being sent to Israel through the global spare parts pool for use on planes operat

Answer

Answered by Douglas Alexander, 9 Jun 2025

Once parts are exported from the UK to the F-35 global spares pool and aircraft assembly facilities, due to the design of the programme, the UK does not have control over whether components are used for specific customer nations or not. The UK cannot make...