Question follow-through · 45055
Challenger Tanks: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress his Department has made on the Challenger 3 programme.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 8 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 23 Apr 2025 · 15 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
8 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress his Department has made on the Challenger 3 programme.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Armour Main Battle Tank programme will deliver Challenger 3. The programme has now delivered four prototypes, with four more currently in build, trials have already proven Challenger 3’s basic firing capability, mechanical design, and structural stren...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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