Question follow-through · 100132
Armoured Fighting Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has he made in identifying a replacement for FV433.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 15 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 23 Dec 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
15 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has he made in identifying a replacement for FV433.
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Army’s FV433 self-propelled howitzer was replaced in the mid-1990s, by the AS90.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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