Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 35734

Thales: Northern Ireland

Tabled: 5 March 2025
Answered: 10 March 2025
Named Day

Question

Alex Burghart

ConservativeBrentwood and Ongar

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department made an assessment of the value-for-money of the award the contract to Thales Northern Ireland for lightweight-multirole missiles prior to the award of that contract on 2 March 2025.

Answer

Maria Eagle
Value for Money of the contract has been assessed in accordance with normal Departmental practice, including benchmarking, in addition to a bottom-up price assessment. In addition to UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) internal assurance the Ukrainian MOD have a...

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