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Question for Ministry of Defence

UIN 27962, tabled on 11 March 2020

Question

Mr Mark Francois
Conservative
Rayleigh and Wickford
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse is of (a) the F-35 programme and (b) each F-35 aircraft.

Answer

Jeremy Quin
Conservative
Horsham
Commons

Answered on

16 March 2020

The price of an F-35B from Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) Lot 11 which comprises the last finalised contract is $115 million. This covers airframe and engine cost and represents a 24% price reduction from our first aircraft ordered. We expect this downward trend to continue in future lots.

Costs of the overall Lightning Programme are set out in the Ministry of Defence Government Major Projects Portfolio data, 2019, which is available in the Library of the House.

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