Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2024 to Question 7503 on Future Combat Air System, if he will set out the details of the capability and other expenditure areas accounted for in the £160m figure stated.

The reduced in year expenditure is not a result of changes to the military capability being developed by the FCAS/GCAP programme. It is a combination of an accounting treatment change, work on the combat aircraft demonstrator project that was carried out ahead of schedule in the previous financial year and revised plans for the delivery of infrastructure and other programme enablers.