Question follow-through · 25381
Unmanned Air Systems
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress he has made on the Protector programme.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 28 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress he has made on the Protector programme.
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jan 2025
Answer published
Protector training has now transferred to the UK having completed four aircrew basic qualification courses in the United States. Further, four Protector Air Vehicles have now been delivered to RAF Waddington, where they are being maintained by 31 Squadron...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Russia: Ukraine
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