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Artillery: Procurement

Question for Ministry of Defence

UIN 127372, tabled on 22 February 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of the £800 million committed to a new automated mobile fires platform over the next ten years in the Defence Command Paper 2021 has been spent in the last twelve months.

Answered on

25 February 2022

Around £166K was spent on the Mobile Fires Platform (MFP) project between February 2021 and January 2022. As the MFP project is still in the Concept Phase, the remainder of the £800 million provisioned has yet to be committed to future projects.

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