Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 5 of the Committee of Public Accounts report entitled The UK’s F-35 stealth fighter capability, HC1232, what steps he has taken to help tackle increases in the F-35 stealth fighter capacity programme’s whole-life costs.

This will be achieved through routine Departmental financial management throughout the life of the F-35 fleet to the out-of-service date.