Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Defence

Oral Answers to Questions

Jerome Mayhew Excerpts
Monday 12th December 2022

(2 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Ben Wallace Portrait Mr Wallace
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Ukraine has shown itself to be a master of innovation and has already developed several long-range drones that are having an effect. The real question here is scale and numbers, compared with the numbers that Russia is buying from Iran. We need to ensure that that is overmatched.

Jerome Mayhew Portrait Jerome Mayhew (Broadland) (Con)
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Defence accommodation maintenance contracts that work on a fix-it-when-it-breaks basis ignore preventive maintenance, create perverse incentives—the longer a repair is left, the greater the damage and the bigger the cost—and too often remove the ability of accommodation users to look after their homes. Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is time we looked at those contracts again?

Andrew Murrison Portrait Dr Murrison
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I am sympathetic to what my hon. Friend says and he can be sure that my hon. and learned Friend the Minister for Defence Procurement and I are looking closely at the FDIS—future defence infrastructure services—contract right now.