Question follow-through · 128751
Global Combat Air Programme: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has held discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer regarding the cost of delivering the Global Combat Air Programme.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 21 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Defence and foreign affairs
- Defence: Finance · 22 Apr 2026
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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
21 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has held discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer regarding the cost of delivering the Global Combat Air Programme.
23 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2026
Answer published
As part of the Ministry of Defence’s close working relationship with HMT, the Chancellor and the Defence Secretary, as well as other Ministers and officials, regularly discuss many of the Department’s largest programmes. These discussions can include the ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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