Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 18818
Ukraine: Defence
Tabled: 14 July 2026
Answered: 21 July 2026
Question
Luke Akehurst
Labour — North Durham
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to apply the Project Octopus model of manufacturing Ukrainian-designed systems in the UK to other capability areas, including electronic warfare and marine autonomy.
Answer
Louise Sandher-JonesProject OCTOPUS is our first collaborative capability project with Ukraine under Programme LYRA, which the Prime Minister and President Zelenskyy launched last June. Programme LYRA enables the bilateral exchange of battlefield technology and intellectual ...
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