Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment has he made of the potential merits of a) deconflicting and b) combining Project Shrinker with Project Cairns.

Project CAIRNS is currently a pre-concept project and as such formal consideration of systems and specifications has not yet taken place.

Project SHRINKER is a Defence procurement project. For reasons of operational security, I cannot provide any further details.