Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) recent assessment he has made of the airworthiness of the current fleet of Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft operated by the RAF and (b) amount of funding his Department has allocated to maintain and upgrade the existing aircraft.

The RAF's Continuing Airworthiness Management processes provide assurance that all Air Systems are airworthy, available, maintained to defined standards, and with sustained compliance to regulations.​

The Typhoon Total Availability eNterprise (TyTAN) is a ten-year £2.1 billion agreement with BAE Systems for support for the Typhoon fleet, established in 2016.

Continual modernisation is a core element of the Typhoon programme. The UK Government has approved investment to complete development of the European Common Radar System (ECRS) Mark 2 and to deliver it into service via a four nation NATO programme called Phased 4 Enhancement (P4E). The P4E programme integrates ECRS Mk2 onto Typhoon together with a package of other upgrades agreed by the UK MOD and our partners.