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F-35 Aircraft: Procurement

Commons · Question 91203 · Tabled 14 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Defence · Official record

Answered 20 Nov 2025

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Asked by Andrew Snowden

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 22 of the report entitled The UK’s F-35 capability, HC 989, published by the National Audit Office on 11 July 2025, if he will set out the updated estimate of the whole-life cost of th

Answer

Answered by Luke Pollard, 20 Nov 2025

The F-35 programme reports costs to the Departments and National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) policy as a Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP). My Department will address the Public Accounts Committee recommendations i...