Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 71990

Future Combat Air System: Manufacturing Industries

Tabled: 29 August 2025

Answered: 13 October 2025

Question

Ben Obese-Jecty

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 24 July 2025 to Question HL9397 on Typhoon Aircraft: Factories, on what evidential basis his Department calculated that Combat Air would support 40,000 long-term, high-quality UK m

Answer

Luke Pollard

The figure related to an estimate of the number of jobs sustained across the Combat Air sector and its supply chains by the additional investment announced in the Strategic Defence Review over the next ten years. The estimate was based on internal analysi...

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