Question follow-through · 43376
Typhoon Aircraft: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of ordering Typhoon jets from UK-based manufacturers.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 1 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 9 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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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
1 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of ordering Typhoon jets from UK-based manufacturers.
3 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Apr 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 4 March 2025 to the hon. Member for Fylde (Andrew Snowden) to Question 34040.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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