Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Written Statement of 4 December 2023 on AUKUS Defence Partnership Update, HCWS89, what steps his Department is taking to scale up cooperation on maritime capabilities.
To scale up cooperation on maritime capabilities, AUKUS partners will execute a series of integrated trilateral maritime experiments and exercises to allow us to test and refine our ability to jointly operate uncrewed maritime systems, share and process maritime data trilaterally, and provide real-time maritime domain awareness to support decision-making.