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F-35 Aircraft: Spare Parts

Commons · Question 56816 · Tabled 3 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 12 Jun 2025

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Asked by Rachael Maskell

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what information his Department holds on which countries purchase spare parts from the F35 global spare part pool.

Answer

Answered by Douglas Alexander, 12 Jun 2025

Once parts are exported from the UK to the global F-35 programme, the UK does not have access to information about the movement of individual components, and does not have control over whether components in the global spares pool are used for specific cus...