Question follow-through · 55527
F-35 Aircraft: Components
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of steps taken by his Department to (a) track the final destination of F-35 components and (b) ensure F-35 components are not used by the Israeli military.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 30 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jun 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of steps taken by his Department to (a) track the final destination of F-35 components and (b) ensure F-35 components are not used by the Israeli military.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2025
Answer published
Once parts are exported from the UK to the global F-35 programme, the UK does not have access to information about the movement of individual components, and does not have control over whether components in the global spares pool or aircraft assembly faci...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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