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Department: Ministry of Defence

Oral Answers to Questions

Flick Drummond Excerpts
Monday 21st September 2020

(3 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Ben Wallace Portrait Mr Wallace
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We have already started a market engagement exercise and have had a healthy response. I intend to announce the procurement timetable for the warships in due course, after market testing has completed. We intend to encourage international partners to work alongside UK firms for the bid, which will build on the success of Type 31.

Flick Drummond Portrait Mrs Flick Drummond (Meon Valley) (Con)
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Will the Minister update us on the progress of the digitisation of Veterans UK?

Johnny Mercer Portrait Johnny Mercer
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I am delighted to update my hon. Friend. Six months ago we signed a £25 million contract to digitise all the services that Veterans UK provides. I am clear that too many of our people have a poor experience, and the people in Veterans UK have to work in very difficult conditions with lots of paper records and so on. We are putting a lot of money into digitising that, and the experience will be replicated in an application that people can download to their smartphones, and vets care will be in the hands of every veteran in the United Kingdom.