Question follow-through · 59712
Military aircraft: Helicopters
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he considered including a new medium helicopter programme within the Strategic Defence Review; and whether he plans to implement such a programme.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 13 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 19 Jun 2025 · 6 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
13 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he considered including a new medium helicopter programme within the Strategic Defence Review; and whether he plans to implement such a programme.
18 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jun 2025
Answer published
There are no plans to change the extant New Medium Helicopter competition which started on 27 February 2024 with the release of the Invitation to Negotiate to Airbus Helicopters UK, Leonardo Helicopters UK and Lockheed Martin UK. The Ministry of Defence i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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